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Chris Jordan Photography

James David Morgan wrote this post at 11:16 pm on July 29th, 2007.

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Chris Jordan creates stunning and startling photographs that highlight the impact of unbridled consumerism.

From his artist’s statement:

“The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity.

The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for the consequences. I fear that in this process we are doing irreparable harm to our planet and to our individual spirits.”

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