Chris Jordan

More from the GEL conference:

Chris Jordan quit his job as a corporate lawyer to take high resolution pictures of huge piles of garbage. In his words, we have access to the good information about our consumption (through commercials, noticeable quality of life improvements, etc.) but we can’t see the cumulative, negative effects of this consumption. Chris’ goal is to make people aware of this waste … though one of my friends commented that the pictures were so beautiful, one might conclude that the trash is a good thing after all!

He also creates very large-scale composites that illustrate various statistics about the environment and the world. Raw data is emotionally meaningless; these pictures make statistics “visible”. I like these pictures less, but a worthwhile message and neat idea nonetheless