Seattle Artist Captures “Slow-Motion Apocalypse” of Consumer Culture

plastic bags

Plastic Bags, 2007- A picture of 60,000 plastic bags, used every 5 seconds in the US

Photographer Chris Jordan, recently featured on the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, takes pictures of the things we throw away. He has photographed crushed cars, cigarette butts, aluminum cans and oil drums, among many, many others. His latest exhibit, “Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait”, gives the viewer a queasy-but-fascinated sense of the immense scale of what we throw away. Looking at the number of plastic bags we use every 5 seconds (60,000!) could really make you think twice at the grocery store.

Check out more of his beautiful, disturbing work at chrisjordan.com.


Posted on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at 12:15 pm | Tagged in Art, Pollution, Recycling, Waste | posted by Dina

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