Chris Jordan’s main focus on mass consumption is extremely intriguing when it comes to the population and its consumptions, and how they negatively affect the earth. He also created a piece of work called “Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption,” this work includes different landfills and recycling points and how all different disposed items are placed. He also then placed these objects into different structures and arrangements in order to create beautiful abstractions. This creates a satisfying and oddly amusing images with the shocking reality of waste plants and the disposal of rubbish and waste. These unusual images display huge amounts of large items such as car tyres, cars and landfill sites on a huge scale. Another piece of work named “Running the Numbers,” is particularly disturbing, heart-breaking where Chris Jordan includes waste statistics into multiple images. This also included photographs which are particularly ‘disturbing’ but also necessary to help spread awareness for the issues and dangers which are created just from human contribution to the world. These images will be extremely challenging and difficult to make however, I will attempt to replicate a similar image whilst
“Midway”
“Camel Gastrolith”
These two projects are particularly meaningful and touching as they display the victims of our actions. In Midway, the carcasses of baby albatross’ are scattered with their insides polluted with plastics such as bottle caps, lighters, and other single use plastics. This is extremely graphic to see and shows the severity and ferocity of human actions.
that show the affects of projects that draw our attention to the innocent victims of our excess. We see the carcass of a baby albatross, its gut filled with plastic caps, lighters and other lethal plastic objects. We see the stomach contents of a dead camel, comprised of over 500 plastic bags, along with plastic, glass and metal debris. Throughout his work, Jordan reveals the harrowing consequences of our daily choices and the urgent need to make a change.
Chris Jones Inspired Experimentation.
I did a very quick photoshoot to display and experiment with how I could display all objects I find whilst looking for stray rubbish on the floor. I used a black piece of paper in the background and I used objects such as calculators, brushes, glue sticks and pens in a separated arrangement which I could use for the litter I come across.
For this mini photoshoot I focused on photographing singular objects on the ground. This was to practice further with Chris Jordan inspired work. I decided to photograph these objects individually and not all pieced together, next time I would like to photograph all these objects arranged in a similar arrangement to what I practiced.
Photoshop.
I created this in Photoshop using the quick selection tool and this took a lot of layers to create. I cut the images out using the tool and then reordered created a layer copy to erase the background image and keep the selected area, I then arranged them into a variation of images to create this picture.
