I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

Chris Jordan

Categorized in : Way Photograph Crave Painter

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

future legacy responsibility people

When I learned about this tragedy that's happening in Midway - you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste - I just felt drawn there magnetically.

birds know you tragedy

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.

feeling myself language change

My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it's the behaviors that we're in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day.

daily day work time

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

own change responsibility culture