Chris Jordan's Fascinating Photos of Decomposed, Trash Filled Birds

While looking through photo sets of dead, oil soaked animals washing up around the Gulf Of Mexico, a friend told me about the photographic work of Chris Jordan.  He has taken numerous pictures of decomposed birds whose stomachs contained lots of small bits of plastic trash.  "[M]ade in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking."

Though the photographs are shot in a deadpan, matter-of-fact style, they are ominous, gruesome and fascinating.  The full gallery is here.

Comments

[Robert Roe]

Hey Nat, Your blog is timely. Maplewood is considering banning stores from using plastic bags at the check out. But judging from the photos, it looks like other typwes of plastic, especially screw on bottle tops may be a bigger problem.

[boil]

Awesome gallery link, but my tears just about shorted out my laptop.

[HowdyDodad]

Fuck us.