Chris has released and posted on his website a selection of his photographs under the title “Message from the Gyre”.
In Chris’ words:
These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.
More details on Chris’ photography ethic can be found here.
The full selection of photographs released to date can be viewed here.
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This makes my heart ache with sadness. Everyday I grow angrier at the human race. How can we do this to our own planet? To its fellow occupants? I just don’t understand.