Napping Albatross #1, Midway - 2012
A Laysan Albatross naps on Midway Island during nesting season, Spring 2012.
Chris Jordan (b. 1963, USA) is an internationally acclaimed artist and cultural activist based in Seattle, USA. His work explores contemporary mass culture from a variety of photographic and conceptual perspectives, connecting the viewer viscerally to the enormity and power of humanity’s collective behaviors. Edge-walking the lines between beauty and horror, abstraction and representation, the near and the far, the visible and the invisible, his work asks us to consider our own role in the incomprehensibly complex world we find ourselves part of. Jordan’s works have been exhibited and published worldwide.
- Awards
- Prix Pictet, London, UK, Commission Prize - 2011
- Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer Fellowship - 2011
- Prix Pictet, London, UK, Nominated & Short Listed Artist - 2010
- Ansel Adams Award for Excellence in Conservation Photography, Sierra Club - 2010
- LEAD Award, Germany, For "Midway" series published in Stern Magazine, Bronze Medal - 2010
- TreeHugger, Best of Green, Best Artist - 2010
- Prix Pictet, London, UK, Nominated & Shortlisted Artist - 2008
- Green Leaf Award, Natural World Museum & UNEP, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway - 2007
- Fellowship Award recipient, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO - 2006
- Best of Show award, "Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth," Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston, TX - 2006
- Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography - 2005
- First Place Winner, Gary Horowitz Award, Allegany Arts Council - 2004
- Photo Espana Descubrimientos, Honorable Mention runner up to festival prize, Madrid, Spain - 2004
- Finalist, Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, Center for Documentary Studies - 2004
