June 20, 2009

Big Project, Big Message

Chris Jordan, former corporate attorney turned photographic artist, using photoshop to make not just huge pieces (ranging sizes 60-80", to 80-120") but huge statements as well.
Here he has created six 10x23 feet vertical panels. It depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005. The U.S. has the largest prison population of any country in the world.
Barbie Dolls, 2008
60x80" Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.
See more from his latest collection, Running the Numbers: An American Portrait