This recent series, Ablation Points, depicts fictitious glacial scenes as an extended metaphor for climate change. The images are digitally enhanced photographs of miniature / model landscapes constructed in the studio. Large-format photographs are made quickly as the scenes melt. Through this process, singular moments are captured that lend themselves to mythic visual statements.
Christopher Jordan is a photographic artist and teacher. He currently holds a full-time faculty position at the University of Alabama, USA. He earned his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2004.
Conceptually, he practices landscape photography in the most general sense. Projects find him creating landscape imagery of both real and imaginary places. His most recent series, Ablation Points, depicts fictitious glacial scenes as an extended metaphor for climate change.
