Step back and these images seem speckled and blurry but take a closer look and each part becomes clear.
They are made up from thousands of products we use every day in our throwaway society.
One image shows a pair of breasts but look closely and each spec reveals itself to be a Barbie doll.
32,000 Barbie dolls make up the of women in the US who have breast enlarge-ment surgery every month
The 1.5m x 2m (5ft x 6ft 6in) photograph depicts 32,000 of the plastic dolls – the number of women in the US who undergo breast enlargement surgery every month.
Photographer Chris Jordan painstakingly assembled them in circular arrangements for the photomontage. It is one of a series of portraits in his Running The Numbers project which aims to show the large-scale waste of consumerism in the US.
The ex-corporate lawyer who turned to photography five years ago, said he was trying to encourage people to take action by translating 'gigantic numbers' into visual images.
They are made up from thousands of products we use every day in our throwaway society.
One image shows a pair of breasts but look closely and each spec reveals itself to be a Barbie doll.
32,000 Barbie dolls make up the of women in the US who have breast enlarge-ment surgery every month
The 1.5m x 2m (5ft x 6ft 6in) photograph depicts 32,000 of the plastic dolls – the number of women in the US who undergo breast enlargement surgery every month.
Photographer Chris Jordan painstakingly assembled them in circular arrangements for the photomontage. It is one of a series of portraits in his Running The Numbers project which aims to show the large-scale waste of consumerism in the US.
The ex-corporate lawyer who turned to photography five years ago, said he was trying to encourage people to take action by translating 'gigantic numbers' into visual images.
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