All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
From Chris Jordan
I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn't stray too far into either.
I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.
There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.
I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.
I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.
I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.
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