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A picture is worth a thousand words. New work from photographer Chris Jordan .
Chris Jordan is best known for larger scale photography that depicts mass consumption and waste.
You might see his work in our main gallery. Last December, he was one of the artists in "Waht's the rush? Topics on Convenience" exhibition. One of his works was a large scale digital print depicting two million plastic beverage bottles.

Abandoned his "pop art approach", Chris Jordan's new work was less about form but more intense and shocking. Work was shot in 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny island near the middle of the North Pacific. In order to documented the phenomenon as faithfully as possible, Chris did not make any artificial rearrangement: "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." Check those pictures from his web site.



Chris Jordan's also been called the "it" artist for the green movement. "It chages the way you view the world."
Embedded below is a video of Chris Jordan speaking at the prestigious TED conference.