Chris Jordan is an American artist born in 1963 who produces extremely large photographs based on mass consumption and social concerns with excess waste. He creates his images with digital manipulation to emphasize his concerns for our environment and the way we dispose of our waste. He tries to show this impact through images that are sometimes hard to swallow, or believe. And it’s not his intention for the viewer to “believe” these images. He just wants to artistically show how he feels about this issue. He uses repetition and large-scale work to portray the staggering statistics about what he’s portraying. For example, his Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture (2009 - Current) they are HUGE images, some familiar like his image of “Starry Night” that depicts 50,000 cigarette lighters, equal to the estimated number of pieces of floating plastic in every square mile in the world's oceans. HOW CRAZY IS THAT? Here is that image, along with a few others of his so you can see how his work can impact so many people.