Photographer Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan is an artist based in Seattle, Washington who is best known for his large scale works depicting mass consumption and waste, particularly garbage. He has been called "the 'it' artist of the green movement.Jordan grew up in Connecticut, where his father was a businessman and a photographer on the side, and Jordan later said that he was "filled with regret" that he could not practice his hobby photography full time. Jordan was going to attend UC Santa Barbara, where he was going to study music, but instead transferred to the University of Texas at Austin to be with his wife, who was in graduate school there. He then attended law school "for all the wrong reasons," including a wrongful arrest at a young age, and then worked as a corporate lawyer. In the meantime, he spent all his free time and money on photography. He moved to Seattle because of its reputation as an interesting city that was near climbable mountains. After ten years of practicing law, Jordan resigned from the bar, removing his safety net, in order to become a full-time photographer. Early successes, including major shows in New York and Los Angeles, propelled his career.

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