Wednesday, March 19, 2014
World Water Week at Chief Sealth International High School
Chris Jordan will be giving the keynote address at Chief Sealth International High School's World Water Week event on March 25, 2014, at 7pm at the school's auditorium. He'll be speaking about his journey to Midway Island. Doors open at 6pm for a community resource fair, with live music and refreshments.
This event is free and open to the public. More info is at the Town Hall website.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sightline@20 Series: Journey to Midway Island with Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan will be sharing his Midway photos and film project, recounting his harrowing and redemptive journey into horror, beauty, grief, love and ultimately healing, as part of Sightline Institute's three speaker anniversary series.
Wednesday, June 19Sightline Institute is a nonprofit research and communications organization working to build sustainable communities and advance long-term solutions to climate change.
7:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Town Hall - Great Hall
1119 Eighth Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets are $5. Order tickets via Brown Paper Tickets.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Interview at EcoLiteracy
Chris was recently interviewed about his work and the Midway project. Read the full interview at EcoLiteracy.com
Friday, November 9, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
From the Wednesday, August 29, 2012
From Thursday, August 23, 2012
From the Sunday, August 5, 2012
Chris Jordan's TED Talk is on the Thursday, June 28, 2012
An Thursday, June 14, 2012
Interview in Outside Online
Chris Jordan was recently interviewed by Outside Online about the Midway Journey, the upcoming film Midway, and the current Kickstarter project.
The birds on Midway are like messengers, the canary in the coal mine. When the canary dies, the miners don’t run over and try to save the canary— they receive the message that bird just gave its life delivering, and then act quickly to save themselves. That approach resonates with me because it doesn’t view the birds as helpless victims that we passively observe; it places a duty on us to receive their message, and be changed by it (or not).Read the full interview here.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Still Running the Numbers: Chris Jordan’s Continuing Effort to Illustrate the Sustainability Crisis
Chris Jordan continues to make bold art with deep sustainability themes, including a new look at plastic pollution of the oceans with Gyre II.Read the full article at Transforming Cultures.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
At Midway Atoll, the Laysan albatross soars into spotlight
Having been fortunate enough to have visited to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, I can attest that there are few avian critters as goofy-looking (on land), graceful (in flight) and lovable as the Laysan albatross. The accompanying video clip, posted Monday by Midway Journey, reveals a glimpse of what's to come in a high-definition film titled "Midway," directed by Chris Jordan. It shows weary albatross parents waddling shoreward to embark on their first forays to find food after weeks on the nest.Read more at Pete Thomas Outdoors.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
An exhibition review at Saturday, January 28, 2012
Journey to Midway
Midway Atoll, one of the most remote islands on earth, is a kaleidoscope of geography, culture, human history, and natural wonder. It also serves as a lens into one of the most profound and symbolic environmental tragedies of our time: the deaths by starvation of thousands of albatrosses who mistake floating plastic trash for food.The images are iconic. The horror, absolute. Our goal, however, is to look beyond the grief and the tragedy. It is here, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that we have the opportunity to see our world in context. On Midway, we can not deny the impact we have on the planet. Yet at the same time, we are struck by beauty of the land and the soundscape of wildlife around us, and it is here that we can see the miracle that is life on this earth. So it is with the knowledge of our impact here that we must find a way forward.
For more information on the project, visit Midway Journey.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Going Forth to Build a Future
For the Grandchildren presents a very special evening with Joanna Macy and Chris Jordan on June 21, 2011, at 7:15pm at Seattle University's Pigott Auditorium.
Joanna Macy, Gaian teacher and eco-philosopher, will begin the evening with a reflection on the times we are living in. Chris Jordan will present his compelling photo-art which displays what over-consumption is doing to our planet and all its inhabitants. Joanna and Chris will complete the evening with a deep conversation about our times.
Tickets are $12 for students 25 and under and $20 for adults. Tickets can be found through Brown Paper Tickets.
Joanna Macy, Gaian teacher and eco-philosopher, will begin the evening with a reflection on the times we are living in. Chris Jordan will present his compelling photo-art which displays what over-consumption is doing to our planet and all its inhabitants. Joanna and Chris will complete the evening with a deep conversation about our times.
Tickets are $12 for students 25 and under and $20 for adults. Tickets can be found through Brown Paper Tickets.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Dear friends,
My team and I are heading back to Midway Atoll in December, to witness and film the adult albatrosses doing their mating rituals. We will turn toward the beauty and primacy of this collective call to life as another facet of the rich metaphor that Midway offers. We are privileged on this leg of the journey to have a real live national treasure joining us: the writer Terry Tempest Williams. We’ll be on the island December 2-11, and you can follow us on our website: www.midwayjourney.com.
~cj
My team and I are heading back to Midway Atoll in December, to witness and film the adult albatrosses doing their mating rituals. We will turn toward the beauty and primacy of this collective call to life as another facet of the rich metaphor that Midway offers. We are privileged on this leg of the journey to have a real live national treasure joining us: the writer Terry Tempest Williams. We’ll be on the island December 2-11, and you can follow us on our website: www.midwayjourney.com.
~cj
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Dear friends and followers of the Midway project,
As my team and I prepare to travel back to Midway Atoll, I cannot help but note the macabre juxtaposition of the environmental disaster that is happening in the Pacific Ocean, with the one that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico. The two phenomena are oddly parallel, involving (among other grotesque features) the deaths of untold numbers of sea birds, caused by millions of tons of our petroleum products that have poured into the ocean via our collective negligence. And in each case the birds can be viewed as messengers, serving as one small warming signal of a much larger calamity, with global consequences, in which our individual consumer lifestyles are unavoidably complicit.
My friend the artist Richard Lang says the opposite of beauty is not ugliness, but indifference. For me this means that to live ethical lives, we are called to turn toward the staggering enormity of human-caused catastrophes like the Pacific Garbage Patch and the Gulf Oil Disaster, opening our heart to their horrors, and taking the risk that we might be overwhelmed by the potent feelings this process brings up in us. I can see no other acceptable approach, yet I fear that by dwelling on the awfulness of these tragedies—and the smorgasbord of others we survey in the news every day—we may lose our already tenuous connection with life’s beauty, mystery, humor, and joy. I want to learn to stand in the paradox of these conflicting realities, turning more fully toward each of them despite the anxiety involved, as they generate their respective teachings about what it means to live as an engaged citizen in our times.
These are some thoughts and intentions I carry in mind, as we travel back to Midway to document another chapter in the richly metaphoric intersection of the mythic albatross and the ten million tons of plastic pollution that swirl in the remote waters of the North Pacific. I invite you to follow our expedition as we blog from the island on midwayjourney.com, and as we release our photographs, writings, and the documentary film that will follow.
Happy July to all, with warm regards from Seattle,
~cj
As my team and I prepare to travel back to Midway Atoll, I cannot help but note the macabre juxtaposition of the environmental disaster that is happening in the Pacific Ocean, with the one that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico. The two phenomena are oddly parallel, involving (among other grotesque features) the deaths of untold numbers of sea birds, caused by millions of tons of our petroleum products that have poured into the ocean via our collective negligence. And in each case the birds can be viewed as messengers, serving as one small warming signal of a much larger calamity, with global consequences, in which our individual consumer lifestyles are unavoidably complicit.
My friend the artist Richard Lang says the opposite of beauty is not ugliness, but indifference. For me this means that to live ethical lives, we are called to turn toward the staggering enormity of human-caused catastrophes like the Pacific Garbage Patch and the Gulf Oil Disaster, opening our heart to their horrors, and taking the risk that we might be overwhelmed by the potent feelings this process brings up in us. I can see no other acceptable approach, yet I fear that by dwelling on the awfulness of these tragedies—and the smorgasbord of others we survey in the news every day—we may lose our already tenuous connection with life’s beauty, mystery, humor, and joy. I want to learn to stand in the paradox of these conflicting realities, turning more fully toward each of them despite the anxiety involved, as they generate their respective teachings about what it means to live as an engaged citizen in our times.
These are some thoughts and intentions I carry in mind, as we travel back to Midway to document another chapter in the richly metaphoric intersection of the mythic albatross and the ten million tons of plastic pollution that swirl in the remote waters of the North Pacific. I invite you to follow our expedition as we blog from the island on midwayjourney.com, and as we release our photographs, writings, and the documentary film that will follow.
Happy July to all, with warm regards from Seattle,
~cj
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Hello friends, greetings and welcome to my new website. You can sign up to follow my blog here. I don't plan on writing very often, just the occasional update on new projects, news, etc. And be sure to check the cool SeaDragon zooming feature on the Running the Numbers series, courtesy of my friends at Microsoft’s Live Labs.
Several new projects are in the pipeline, so stay tuned.
Cheers from Seattle,
~cj, May 24, 2010
Several new projects are in the pipeline, so stay tuned.
Cheers from Seattle,
~cj, May 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Pulse New York/ Chris Jordan press mentions
Chris Jordan's new photographs from 'Running The Numbers' received several 'shout-outs' from art bloggers who saw them at the Pulse Art Fair 2009 in New York.
Horses Think: Don't Think
A Sky Filled With Shooting Stars
Horses Think: Don't Think
A Sky Filled With Shooting Stars
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