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. — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
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… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
“If there is anything I’ve learned being the mother of many children, it’s that you’d better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.” — Chris Jordan Copy Share
There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling. — Chris Jordan Copy Share
Finding meaning in global mass phenomena can be difficult because the phenomena themselves are invisible, spread across the earth in millions of separate places.… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist. — Chris Jordan Copy Share
If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you'll be completely surrounded by them, as they come… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art,… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture. — Chris Jordan Copy Share
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way. — Chris Jordan Copy Share
My work is about the behaviors that we all engage in unconsciously on a collective level. And what I mean by that, it's the… — Chris Jordan Copy Share
