I discovered photographer Chris Jordan's website a few days ago. These photos are from his exhibition "An American Self Portrait -Running the Numbers". His stunning art portrays American culture through the lens of statistics.- 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).
Light Bulbs; A zoom in towards the 320 000 Light Bulbs, which equals residential electricity wasted (due to bad wiring, electronics in sleeping mode).
Plastic Bottles - two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes. Designed for a useful life of a few years, if that. Made from a material that stays around for hundreds of years (unless it gets incinerated whereby it releases toxins). That doesn't sound like the smartest product design to me.
A detail from "Prison Uniforms". 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005. The U.S. has the largest prison population of any country in the world. And some of the prisons are private, for-profit businesses.
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Incredible!
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