Best known for his large-scale images of excess, rendering unimaginable statistics like the millions of pieces of plastic dumped into the ocean each hour, photographer Chris Jordan focuses his lens more closely. Visiting the Midway Atoll, at the center of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Jordan took these disturbing photos of dead albatross chicks raised on a steady diet of plastic debris floating in the water: lighters, bottle caps and other colorful trash. He writes: Read more »