Above Mobile Phones Atlanta 2005
Above: Crushed cars Tacoma 2004
Above: Computer Waste New Orleans 2005Below: 32000 Barbies to illustrate the number of breast augmentation operations in the US every month.
Chris Jordan is a photographer who portrays global culture and mass consumption in a way that at first beguiles and then shocks. I first became aware of him through a central spread in the Guardian, with a shocking picture of disposed Mobile phones, part of a series called 'Intolerable Beauty'.
Chris's work has intolerable beauty, it is truly shocking and horrifying, please spend some time and have a good look.
His work is like the 'big lie theory', only the 'Big Lie Theory' has now become 'the big statistic theory' in that the 'big statistic' is beyond our grasp of reality, it is not comprehendable and thus we accept and dismiss it, as not applicable to us or our actions.
Chris Jordan tries to make the statistics visable, understandable and something to do with you, me, us.
And yes TED has found another wonder.
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