Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art
Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His super-sized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
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ABOUT Chris Jordan
“Artist Chris Jordan, a founding member of PPC (Plastic Pollution Coalition) shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like.
His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics — like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
The Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global Non Profit Organisation dedicated to educating the public regarding the growing rate of plastic pollution, and particularly single-use plastic, entering wastestreams worldwide, and presenting an increasing risk to human and environmental health.
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