Photographer Chris Jordan traveled to one of the remotest islands in the North Pacific ocean - Midway Atoll with five other artists.
There he witnessed thousands of dead albatrosses. Cause: Starvation, toxicity and choking from feeding on floating plastic and other trash dumped in the oceans.
In the documentary photographs taken by him, one can see cigarette lighters, plastic vials and bottle caps in the remains of decomposing birds. The shocking thing is Midway Atoll is a remote marine sanctuary 2000 miles away from the nearest continent.
See the slide show below, or see the photographs in HTML here and read the Midway blog.
Rosalind
November 19, 2009 - 02:05