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PUBLIC MARKS from sbrothier with tags photography & écologie

May 2007

Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait

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This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

October 2005

Intolerable Beauty | Portraits of American Mass Consumption

by 16 others
Chris Jordan explore la complexité de notre société de consommation et ça en fait un Yann Arthus Bertrand version activiste de chez Greenpeace... Macabre / désolant / beau / comique... à chacun de voir

North South East West »

NorthSouthEastWest tells the story of these places; ice-caps, mega-cities, rice fields, townships, islands, forests and much more. It deals with the threats that millions face to their food supplies, fresh water, health, culture and even the existence of their countries. But it also details a range of solutions that may stave off the worst of the crisis. There are big and small ideas, some simple, others technically complex, but all part of the battle to stop climate change getting out of hand.

Banque photographique sur l'environnement et le développement durable

by 3 others
1007 photos et illustrations sur les thématiques de l'Environnement, de la nature, des pollutions, des problématiques sociales sont à votre disposition