A few months ago we introduced you to the fascinating work of photographer and environmentalist Chris Jordan. Here his newest project entitled, “The Message from Gyre”, shot at Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. To portray the pollution in the waters of this area he photographed deteriorating albatross chicks who had died from eating toxic waste. The photos illustrate the contents in their stomach without any exaggeration. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
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October 27th, 2009 at 11:05 am
i dont really know how this qualifies as high art i mean its more like a gutteral scream of a call to action to stop using disposable plastics. If you categorize this as art, i think it does everyone an injustice because it sweeps aside the issue. dead birds with our plastic trash in them shouldn’t be seen as art. If you want to help this cause, you can donate or volunteer wit the Algalita foundation. One of the 3 organizations researching the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
http://www.algalita.org/research.html
November 11th, 2009 at 6:32 am
I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing or not but the dead bird seems kind of beautiful to me, all the colours in the photo is eye appealing, and the previous comment is also correct upto some extent that calling this an art could do injustice to the main issue and the birds definitely need some help!!
November 17th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
“‘God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus! –
Why look’st thou so?’ — With my cross-bow
I shot the ALBATROSS.”