Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan
Midway: Message From the Gyre by Chris Jordan
28th January - 1st March 2010
Chris Jordan was born in 1963 in San Francisco and currently lives in Seattle. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, and his images have been featured in magazines and web logs worldwide. His prints are held in more than one hundred public and private collections.
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.
Chris Jordan October 2009
Reg. Charity No.1121118
© KCAC 2010
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