Chris Jordan

He is a artist from Seattle who does photos on mass consumption and 

garbage. He was a lawyer who enjoyed photography. He decided to give up his

law career and move to Seattle because of its reputation of being an exciting city. He started taking

photos of garbage. He makes a statement of American Consumerism and waste in 

his photo's .His photography shows what is going on every day around us that we

over look or choose not to see. The top photo is from his "Running the Number's" series and 

the bottom on is from his "In Katrina's Wake" series.  The first one i choose because it is 

a large numbers of photos of nuclear mushroom clouds put together to form a view of the Titanic and 

is titled "unsinkable, 2013" . It represents the 67,000 metric tons of radiation in pools around nuclear 

power plants. My second choice is shows the great loss after a natural disaster. Both photo's 

 make a statement and yet show beauty in them. 

I choose him because the statement he makes with the photos, that there is too much waste in 

society today and that it is destroying our planet little at a time. His work appeals to me 

in that I believe that something needs done and the only way it will 

is if someone draws attention to the destruction we are creating on this planet. 

http://photographyforagreenerplanet.wordpress.com/tag/chris-jordan/

Even in the light of destruction there is hope. Whether it is man made with trash and garbage

or whether it is from a natural disaster there is always a way to rebuild if we

start now to fix or reverse the damage that was done by humans or nature. 

His photos draw attention to the waste that we as humans have grown accustom to, as we pass it 

everyday yet do not look upon it as if the world will heal itself with out our help.