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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Junk Food
Brace yourself for this short video of the horrifying contents of the stomach of a dead baby albatross on Midway Atoll. The island will soon be covered with tens of thousands of carcasses like this, as the plastic-filled birds die from starvation, dehydration, and choking. Video by: Jan Vozenilek Music by: Christen Lien
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – First Impressions
Dear Friends and Followers of Midway Journey, Thank you for your patience as we have taken a few days to find our bearings and connect to the Internet. We are astonished and delighted to find ourselves back here again on remote Midway Atoll. The tiny island is now covered with several hundred thousand fledgling albatrosses [...]
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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 [...]
A Glimpse of the Tragedy
Until now, we have not shown the carcasses of the albatross chicks that Chris Jordan has been photographing, stuffed with plastic beyond belief. So much plastic, and in such bizarre combinations of objects and colors, that we recently posted a video in which Chris explains his photography ethic: no plastic is added to any photo, [...]
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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 [...]
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Photography Ethics
The amount of plastic objects that we are finding inside of the albatross carcasses that cover Midway Island is so shocking that it might be hard to believe. As soon as we landed on the island, we all agreed to adhere to a strict work ethic that is summarized in these three rules: No plastic [...]
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First Dead Albatrosses
On his first morning on Midway, Chris begins searching for the remains of albatrosses that have died from ingesting plastic. It didn’t take long to find his first photographic subjects. -Bill Weaver Voiceover by Chris Jordan
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MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Junk Food II : Our First Dissection