Chris Jordan is an American artist, photographer and film producer. He has won many awards for his photography including the Ansel Adams Award for Excellence in Conservation Photography and the 2007 Green Leaf Award from the Natural World Museum and United Nations. He is famous for his photographs capturing litter and mass consumption. A lot of his photos show the disturbing truth of how the populations littering has an effect on nature. He does this by capturing images of the rubbish including plastic packages and toys inside the stomachs of dead birds. His photographs focus on the negative part of how humans live, rather than taking photos of beauty, he includes the unpleasantness.

More of Chris Jordan’s similar work is:

• Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003–2006) – A series of photographs portraying the magnitude of America’s waste and consumption.
• In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster (2005) – A series of photographs taken in 2005 showing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
• Running The Numbers I: An American Self Portrait (2006–2009) – A series of photographic mosaics depicting visualisations of statistics related to America’s consumerism, social problems, and addictions.
• Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture