Many thanks to my colleague Nelly who pointed these prints out to me yesterday.
The images were created by Chris Jordan in 2007 and 2008 in a project called Running the Numbers.
The one I have chosen to display was created in 2007 depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
A partial zoom into the picture shows
and then a detail of the actual size.
Do visit the site for other mind boggling images.
In 2009 Chris Jordan has had another exhibition Running the Numbers II: portraits of global mass culture. Similarly to the first Running the Numbers series, each image portrays a specific quantity of something: the number of tuna fished from the world’s oceans every fifteen minutes, for example. But this time the statistics are global in scale, rather than specifically American.
For example this one depicts 20,500 tuna, the average number of tuna fished from the world’s oceans every fifteen minutes.
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