Quotes by Chris Jordan - Page 1

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.
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Each One
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I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.
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Digital
Photographer
Photographic
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I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.
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American Culture
Hostility
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
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I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
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Crave
Expressive
Painter
Photograph
Loose
Paints
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My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.
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Arise
Nowhere
Intentionally
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I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.
Chris Jordan /
Photographs
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American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
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American Culture
History Culture Way
Denying
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Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.
Chris Jordan /
Humor
Compass
Grief
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What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.
Chris Jordan /
Aspire
Window
Directly
Real Thing
Viewer
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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 /
Dry
Visual
Translator
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I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.
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Concrete
Continuing
Demand
Hoarding
Pouring
Rendering
Trade
Dialog
Imply
Secrets
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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.
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Attitude
Truth Is
Make A Difference
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How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?
Chris Jordan /
Charge
Individually
Solution
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I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.
Chris Jordan /
Spotlight
Transparent
Accessible
Life Work Society
Technologies
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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.
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Filled
Midway
Tragedy
Waste
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All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.
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Attraction
Bunch
Discord
Evoke
Layers
Repulsion
Consumer
Habits
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I'm not against shock and horror. In fact, I really belive in facing the dark realities of our time as the first step in coming out of denial. So we have to look into the darkness.
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Dark
Denial
Our Time
Shock
Facing
First Step
In Fact
Realities
Step
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I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn't stray too far into either.
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Lines
Honors
Stray
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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.
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Apathy
Feedback
Ties
Politics Art Political
Axiom
Engage
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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.
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Curiosity
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Surrounded
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We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.
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Anger
Atrocities
Committed
Grief
Lost
Missing
Outrage
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Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.
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Invisible
Liberty
Overlooked
Statue Of Liberty
Look People New
Disappears
For Example
New Yorker
Perceptions
Spaces
Statue
Thousands
Yorker
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I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.
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Billions
Legacy
Profound
Dealing
Individuals
More And More
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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.
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Denial
Behaviors
Time Work Daily
Below
Collective
Engage
Work Time Daily
Operate
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One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
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American Culture
Complicity
Conversation
Discourse
Everyday
Fascinating
Germany
Public Discourse
World War Ii
Long Process
Owning
Topic
World War
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Finding meaning in global mass phenomena can be difficult because the phenomena themselves are invisible, spread across the earth in millions of separate places. There is no Mount Everest of waste that we can make a pilgrimage to and behold the sobering aggregate of our discarded stuff, seeing and feeling it viscerally with our senses.
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Discarded
Everest
Invisible
Mass
Mount Everest
Pilgrimage
Senses
Spread
Waste
Aggregate
Behold
Phenomena
Mount
Sobering
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