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Image of Midway, CF000441

Midway, CF000441
Photograph

2009
16 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. (42.55 x 52.71 cm)

Chris Jordan (1963 - ) Primary

Object Type: Photograph
Medium and Support: Inkjet print on paper
Credit Line: Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation
Accession Number: 2010.08.09

Exhibition


Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection, July 22, 2010 - March 13, 2011, New Wing, Second Floor, North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

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Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection (2010-2011)

A lawyer turned environmental activist, Chris Jordan sees his work as a way to shed light on the silent degradation of nature ordinarily invisible to the eye. He traveled to the Midway Atoll, an extremely remote island in the North Pacific Ocean, 2,000 miles from the nearest land. Although the Island is a wildlife refuge, it has proved vulnerable to manmade pollution.

The albatrosses that make their home on the atoll scavenge to feed their young, plucking things from the water that look like food and feeding them to their chicks. Eventually the chicks die, and the contents of their stomachs reveal the cause of death. When Jordan undertook this portfolio in September 2009, it was extremely important to him that he create an objective document of what he observed. This form of environmental reportage is similar to that of Sebastião Salgado.

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