Photographic depiction of sustainability issues - 'Running the Numbers'

A powerful and artstistic depiction of major sustainability issues through photographs. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. Chris Jordan's (the artist) hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.A good visual and could sit alongside the Flags Perspectives resource (also on this www.e4s.org.nz website). Key words: waste, art, photography, consumerism, plastic, health

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7Submitted by Roger Waddell