Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan-Bloch , real name Chris Jordan , (* 1963 in San Francisco ) is a filmmaker , photographer and social and environmental activist in Oklahoma . He works as a producer for the Earthjustice organization and lives in Seattle.
Life
Chris Jordan graduated from the University of Washington in 2003 and then worked as a newspaper photographer and multimedia journalist. He worked for newspapers in Illinois, Oregon, Montana and California before joining Earthjustice in 2010. In 2012 two of his films ( An Ill Wind and Finding Their Way ) were nominated for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival . His work has been recognized by the Best of Photojournalism , the National Press Photographers Association , the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar , the Eddie Adams Workshop , the Associated Press, and the San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association . Jordan-Bloch sees the combination of activism and multimedia storytelling as a good starting point to change something.
He has been married to Sara Bloch since 2011 and has been called Chris Jordan-Bloch ever since.
Work (selection)
- Patterns in the garbage of mass consumption (photo series from 2003 to 2005) Original title: Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption.
- In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster (2005) series of photographs based on Katarina 2005.
- Running The Numbers I An American Self-Portrait (2006–2009)
- Midway (2009–2013) A documentary about the albatrosses on Midway in the South Pacific, suffering from plastic litter in the ocean.
literature
- Chris Jordan, Susan Zakin, Bill McKibben: In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster. Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton 2006, ISBN 156898622X .
- Chris Jordan, Chris Bruce, Lucy R. Lippard, Paul Hawken: Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London, New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4283-2 .
- Ushirikiano: Building a Sustainable Future in Kenya's Northern Rangelands. teNeues, Kempen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8327-9617-4 .
Web links
- Chris Jordan-Bloch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Chris Jordan in the catalog of the German National Library
- chrisjordan.com
- chrisjordanmedia.com
- Philip Gefter: A Great Big Beautiful Pile of Junk. In: The New York Times , July 24, 2005 (accessed February 27, 2013).
- Jörg Colberg: Intolerable Beauty. Depicting the Way of American Life. Interview with Chris Jordan, In: Orion-Magazine , March / April 2007; German commentary by Uli Eberhardt: The unbearably beautiful pictures by Chris Jordan. on focused.com (accessed February 27, 2013).
- Helen Walters: First tears at TED ... In: Bloomberg Businessweek , February 28, 2008 (accessed February 27, 2013).
- Andrew Revkin: A New View of Humanity's Planet. In: The New York Times , Dot Earth Blog, August 19, 2009 (accessed February 27, 2013).
- Michael Upchurch: Chris Jordan's Seattle exhibit puts consumption in living color. , In: The Seattle Times , October 9, 2009 (accessed February 27, 2013).
- Eve Bowen: Chris Jordan on Midway Atoll and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Interview, In: The New York Review of Books , November 11, 2009 (audio podcast, 13 min 29 sec, accessed February 27, 2013).
- Chris Jordan: Midway: Message from the Gyre. In: The New York Review of Books , November 11, 2009 (accessed February 27, 2013).
- Marc McDonald: The Fatal Shore, Awash in Plastic. In: International Herald Tribune , August 23, 2012 (accessed February 27, 2013).
- Chris Jordan: Polluting plastics on poptech.org (video, 17 min 23 sec, accessed on February 27, 2013).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chris Jordan ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on winsorgallery.com, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ↑ a b Chris Jordan-Bloch on earthjustice.org, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ^ Films On Tour. ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at wildandscenicfilmfestival.org, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ↑ Chris Jordan-Bloch's videos on vimeo.com, accessed on February 25, 2013 (with pictures from the wedding)
- ↑ Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption. on chrisjordan.com, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ↑ Report: Patterns in the Garbage of Mass Consumption. on zeit.de, accessed on February 25, 2013.
- ↑ In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster. on chrisjordan.com, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ^ Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. on chrisjordan.com, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ^ Midway: Message from the Gyre. on chrisjordan.com, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ↑ Death from garbage. Zeit Online , January 20, 2011, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ↑ Chris Jordan: Midway. The Telegraph , accessed February 25, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jordan, Chris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jordan-Bloch, Chris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American filmmaker, photographer, and environmental activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |