Chris Jordan- Running the numbers: An American self-portrait

Senior year of high school, our resident artist was a man named Chris Jordan. I really liked Chris' work because it had a message. I think it was impossible to anyone in the audience to ignore the message that he was trying to convey through his photography. The first picture that he showed us was of a bunch of paper bags. Looking at it far away, it kind of looked like tree bark, but if you looked up close, it showed 1.4 million paper grocery bags. The caption read that 1.4 million paper bags are used in the U.S. every hour.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#paper-bags

To be honest, its really hard to pick a favorite picture because all of the statistics are shocking, and really makes one think about everything that they use or buy.

One that I do think stood out to me though was a huge gray looking picture. The caption says, "Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day."

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#cell-phones

Heres the link to his website, because the statistics that he points out are hard to ignore:

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#light-bulbs

you can see his other pictures by clicking on the thumbnails on the right hand side