Chris Jordan is a Seattle based photographer who focuses on American consumerism, and excess in our culture. He creates incredibly large scale works, some over 30 feet long, using central themes of repetition, color, and pattern to draw attention to his ideas. His work is all based on statistics, 65,000 American teenagers under age eighteen become addicted to cigarettes every month, nine million American children had no health insurance coverage in 2007, 83,000 people have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration's war on terror. These numbers are overwhelming, and we are incapable of comprehending numbers that large, Chris Jordan's images provide a new perspective to view these facts.
Paper Bags, 2007
60x80"
Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.
60x80"
Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.
Detail at actual size
Jet Trails, 2007
60x96"
Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours.
Detail
Plastic Cups, 2008
60x90"
Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.
60x90"
Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.
Detail
Dog and Cat Collars, 2009
60x67"
Depicts ten thousand dog and cat collars, equal to the average number of unwanted dogs and cats euthanized in the United States every day.
60x67"
Depicts ten thousand dog and cat collars, equal to the average number of unwanted dogs and cats euthanized in the United States every day.
Detail
Packing Peanuts, 2009
60x80"
Depicts 166,000 packing peanuts, equal to the number of overnight packages shipped by air in the U.S. every hour.
Detail
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