Chris Jordan (artist)

Chris Jordan - Bloch, maiden name Chris Jordan, ( born 1963 in San Francisco) is a filmmaker, photographer, and social and environmental activist in Oklahoma. He works as a producer for the organization Earthjustice and lives in Seattle.

Life

Chris Jordan made ​​in 2003 graduated from the University of Washington and worked then as a newspaper photographer and journalist in the multimedia area. He has worked for newspapers in Illinois, Oregon, Montana and California before he came to Earthjustice in 2010. 2012 were nominated ( and Finding Their Way Ill Wind An) for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival two of his films. His works the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, the Eddie Adams Workshop, the Associated Press and the San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association were honored at the Best of Photojournalism, the National Press Photographers Association. Jordan - Bloch sees the combination of activism and multimedia storytelling as a good starting point to make a difference.

Since 2011 he is married to Sara Bloch and bares the name Chris Jordan - Bloch.

Works ( selection)

• Patterns in the waste of mass consumption (photo series from 2003-2005) Original title: Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption.
• Running The Numbers An American Self-Portrait I (2006-2009)
• Midway (2009-2013) A documentary about the suffering on plastic waste in the sea albatrosses on Midway in the South Pacific.