Chris jordan

Chris Jordan (born 1963) is a photographic artist who in his works presents forms of American consumerism and combines them with shocking information and examples of excessive consumption. A former…

TRASH --> ART Detail shot of Chris Jordan's "Running the Numbers" Art Piece, a piece using 2.4 million pieces of plastic, the estimated amount thrown in the ocean every HOUR (and all the plastic used in the piece was collected from the Pacific Ocean itself)

These four artists bedazzle an especially ugly ocean problem: thousands and thousands of square miles of discarded floating plastic.

Visit Chris Jordan's homepage to explore this and other projects in greater depth at: http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#building-blocks

Whether you read them in the paper or overhear a friend rattling off some numbers at a dinner party, most statistics are often too abstract and/or overwhelming to have a real impact. Especially the ones we should pay attention to, such as our excessively wasteful consumption, the number of deaths from prescription medication overdoses, the pervasive use of GMO seeds in the world or the disturbingly high number of elective breast implants performed in our country annually, just to name a few…

"Gyre," by cultural activist and artist, Chris Jordan. Depicts 2.4 million…

Chris Jordan is an artist and photographer who has spent the past nine years photographing the effects of plastics on our planet. A large part of this project, and Chris’s journey to reckon with the scale of this ongoing issue, have taken place on Midway Atoll. Midway is a cluster of islands 2000 miles from the nearest

<span>During the Milan Design Week 2019 gallerist Rossana Orlandi will award the winners of the Ro Plastic Prize, a prize she established in the footsteps of the previous Guiltless Plastic, to encourage a more conscious use of the material.</span>

Chris Jordan is an internationally acclaimed artist and cultural activist based in Seattle. His work explores contemporary mass culture from a variety of photographic and conceptual perspectives, connecting the viewer viscerally to the enormity and power of humanity’s collective will. Edge-walking the lines between art and activism, beauty and horror, abstraction and representation, the near and the far, the visible and the invisible, his work asks us to consider our own multi-layered roles…

sans seurat, 2007 - depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds. the work of photographer chris jordan examines american