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American artist and photographer

Chris Jordan (born 1963) is an American artist, photographer and film producer based in Seattle, Washington.^[1]

Works

Many of Jordan's works are created from photographs of garbage and mass consumption, a serendipitous technique which started when he visited an industrial yard to look at patterns of color and order.

Jordan uses everyday commonalities such as a plastic cup and defines the blind unawareness involved in American consumerism. His work, while often unsettling, is a message about unconscious behaviors in our everyday lives, leaving it to the viewer to draw conclusions about the inevitable consequences which will arise from our habits.^[2]

Jordan's work can be grouped in the following series:

• Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003–2006) – A series of large format photographs depicting the magnitude of America's waste and consumption.
• In Katrina’s Wake: Po