Photographic Artist Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan is a Seattle-based photographic artist known for his large-scale images of American mass consumption.
“Running The Numbers” looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
Jordan’s hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as those we find daily in news articles and books.
Size plays an important part in the new series, with certain pictures over 10 feet high and 25 feet wide. “I want people to realize that they matter,” Jordandescribes. “As you walk up close, you can see that the collective is only made up of lots and lots of individuals. There is no bad consumer over there somewhere who needs to be educated. There is no public out there who needs to change. It’s each one of us.”
Former corporate attorney turned photographic artist, Chris Jordan explains that he never used to be focused upon making a social statement with his work. “All I was interested in about photography was aesthetic beauty…places where color appears inadvertently.”
November 14, 2008 - Category: Art, Latest, Photography - Posted by: Hans - Comments: 0