Running the Numbers...

Chris Jordan is a photographer, and he has displayed on his web site an interesting series of photographs that represent a collection he calls Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something.

For instance, you have this photograph:


Followed by this photograph:


The above photographs are one and the the same. Both depict 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the United States every day.

Interesting pictures of the "wake" we create as consumers.