Social Media
Check out our photos on Flickr
Follow us on Discovery EarthLive
Follow us on Yes! Magazine
Become a fan on Facebook
Category Archives: General
Trailside encounter
Early one morning I was out photographing along a meadow trail strewn with decaying albatross carcasses. The sun had just risen, and my camera was set up to photograph the exposed body cavity of an albatross chick filled with multicolored plastic.
I heard the sound of a motor approaching, and looked up to see one of [...]
Posted in General Tagged carcass, chris jordan, impressions, midway, midway journey, midwayj 1 Comment
From here forward…
I’m confused by the abundant life and abundant plastic pollution here. It’s easy to slip into a fantasy that a sort of balance has been achieved on Midway Atoll. Birds nesting amidst plastic cigarette lighters, bottle caps, toys, umpteen bits and pieces of plastic; turtles pulling up on the beach to rest among plastic buoys [...]
Posted in General Tagged impressions, midway, midway journey, midwayj, plastic, plastic pollution, victoria sloan jordan 6 Comments
Papahanaumokuakea
In the middle of the Pacific lies a sandy island, where seabirds and humans mingle in a process of renewal and soul-searching. A place where the middle of nowhere becomes not only the middle of somewhere, but the heart of everything.
Midway Atoll is a place of ancient power. A revered elder in a long dynasty [...]
Posted in General Tagged hawaiian elders, hawaiian tradition, impressions, manuel maqueda, midway, midway journey, midwayj, Papahanaumokuakea, tern Leave a comment
Reflections from Midway
Dear friends,
I thought I’d check in at the halfway point of our trip. First of all, greetings! I wish I could snap my fingers and you would all appear here with us.
In terms of my photographic work so far, my primary feeling is one of anxious urgency. What I am seeing through my viewfinder is [...]
Posted in General Tagged albatross, carcass, chris jordan, midwayj, photography, plastic, plastic pollution 2 Comments
First Steps on the Island
Hello friends, reporting in after our first 24 hours. We made it to Midway!
What hit me first when we landed was the incredible color of the lagoon that surrounds the island—a brilliant shade of impossibly luminescent turquoise, ringed by the deep sapphire blue of the Pacific all around. The color is so strong that it [...]
First photos released!