Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan is a Seattle based Photographer. He is known largely for his large scale work on mass consumption, waste and garbage in this country. I chose this series called Midway. To me they were so powerful, and gets the point across how all our trash effect the lives of animals.

"These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent."

His other works are Running the Numbers and Running the Numbers 2, and In Katrina's Wake.