Photographic Quotes by Chris Jordan

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

— Chris Jordan

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

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

— Chris Jordan

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

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