Chris Jordan (artist)
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Chris Jordan is an artist based in Seattle, Washington who is best known for his large scale works depicting consumerism in the United States.[1]
Jordan was born to artist parents. He attended law school "for all the wrong reasons" and spent ten years working as a lawyer thereafter, while spending all his free time and money on photography. After ten years of practicing law, he quit to become a photographer full-time.[2]
Many of his works are created from photographs of garbage, a serendipitous technique which started when he visited an industrial yard to look at patterns of color and order.[3]
Jordan's shows have included In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster, Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption and Running The Numbers, graphical depictions of statistics from American consumer society.[4]
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