If you work at a large city’s shipping port, or a large industry yard, most likely you have already seen some of the scenes captured by photographer Chris Jordan. If you haven’t, try to imagine how great the sight of hundreds or thousands of piled up crushed cars will look like, or how fascinating it is to see millions of cigarette butts. All these, are the results of mass consumption.
Chris Jordan does not only share his works in exhibitions held in various cities around the world, he also share part of his works on his website, with the hope that his photographs “can serve as portals to a kind of cultural self-inquiry”.
The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.
~ Chris Jordan
Link: Chris Jordan Photography
