Chris Jordan - Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009-current)
I understand that these are horrific, disturbing images and not remotely beautiful.
At first I was under the impression that the albatross remains had been arranged by the photographer around piles of plastic trash; then I read this article and learned that “nesting chicks fill their bellies with plastic as their parents collect and feed them bits that look to them like food. As a result, tens of thousands of albatross chicks die of starvation, choking, internal bleeding and poisoning each year.”
I feel the set deserves posting.
(Source: likeafieldmouse, via anotherfuckingnobody)
![ca. 1900, [trick tintype portrait of Cornelius C. Kenney holding his own decapitated head], Cornelius C. Kenney
via Harvard University, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8x618uE2x1qa51rdo1_250.jpg)
“Death doesn’t lie, so death masks – a cast of the face in wax or plaster, taken just hours after breath has gone – promise truthful representations of the departed. In an era before photography, these masks give us each beauty and blemish, a living presence in unchanging material.”
(via bundy-ramirez-dahmer)
