This is one of the latest photographs from environmental photographer Chris Jordan. I’ve made reference to photographer Chris Jordan’s environmental work before. His latest work is a series of photographs documenting the carcasses of dead albatross chicks. The images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries on the islands of Midway, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. The baby bird stomachs are filled with plastic and trash fed to them by their parents who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young.

This is in my mind just another reminder of the Great Pacific Trash Heap which I wrote about and  photographed in my post The Environment and Photography.

Check out more of Chris Jordan’s albatross photos here.