Run the Numbers
Chris Jordan’s photographic art exposes the detritus of mass consumption.
In what he calls ‘evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse’, Chris Jordan captures the shipping ports and industrial yards of America in a macabre but beautiful way. The shocking scale of western consumption is intensely provocative when seen through his lens. It’s pretty disgusting, all told, and his art does as good a guilt-tripping job as any anti-consumerist propaganda I’ve ever seen.
Depicts 166,000 packing peanuts, equal to the number of overnight packages shipped by air in the U.S. every hour.
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Check out more of his work here.
Categories Politics Photography Tags Photography Art
By on 15/4/09
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