We covered Seattle-based photographer Chris Jordan’s Midway photography project back in 2009, and its impact was undeniable. Since that time, Jordan and a film crew have spent the past three years at the Midway Atoll (located halfway between North America and Asia) filming the albatross living and breeding. Why? Because they’ve been consuming our plastic […]
5
Sep
Chris Jordan's treatise on the devastating impact of plastics
29
Mar
Charles Moore draws attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas for TED
We touched on this epic plastic dilemma facing the Planet Earth a couple years back when we covered photographer Chris Jordan’s Midway: Message from the Gyre in 2009, but it doesn’t get any less scary. We have a serious, serious fucked up problem with our consumption of plastics, and if nothing changes we can just […]
all images by Chris Jordan I’ve been completely captivated by Chris Jordan’s work since discovering his apocalyptic, Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption project. This picture of cell phones. Or this one of cell phone chargers. Or this one of Crushed Cars. Wow, what a comment consumerism’s magnetic charm. It’s like catnip to humans. […]
7
Sep
Running the Numbers
If you told me to imagine what a million of anything looked like, chances are you’d be shit out of luck and I’d have a headache. This is where knowing Chris Jordan comes in handy. He takes the guesswork out of visually quantifying quantity with his latest installation, Running the Numbers, which is touring the […]
