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 ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback. Chris Jordan Read Quote
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 behaviors that we’re in denial about and the ones that operate below the surface of our daily awareness. And as individuals, we all do these things, all the time, every day. Chris Jordan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 walking up toward us and nibble on our shoelaces and just look right at us out of curiosity. Chris Jordan Read Quote
When I learned about this tragedy that’s happening in Midway – you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste – I just felt drawn there magnetically. Chris Jordan Read Quote
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. Chris Jordan Read Quote
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints – in a loose, expressive way. Chris Jordan Read Quote
I used to be a photographer – and now I’m some kind of digital photographic artist. Chris Jordan Read Quote