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Field Report: Midway Journey
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Midway Atoll, one of the remotest islands on earth, is a kaleidoscope of geography, culture, human history, and natural wonder. It also serves as a lens into one of the most profound and symbolic environmental tragedies of our time: the deaths by starvation of thousands of albatrosses who mistake floating plastic trash for food.

Five media artists, led by photographer Chris Jordan, are traveling to Midway to witness the catastrophic effect of our disposable culture on some of the world's most beautiful and symbolic creatures. But even more, they are embarking on an introspective journey to confront a vitally relevant question: In this time of unprecedented global crisis, how can we move through grief, denial, despair and immobility into new territories of acceptance, possibility, and wise action?

Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan is a visual artist and cultural activist. His work explores the complex territory of mass culture in a provocative and non-judgmental way. Web: www.chrisjordan.com

Bill Weaver
Bill Weaver is a media strategist, futurist, journalist, and Peabody-Award-winning filmmaker. He has been creating content for U.S. and Canadian Media for 40 years. Bill is founder and facilitator of Media that Matters, a yearly conference that brings media visionaries together in a wilderness setting to discuss how to better serve society and the planet.

Web: www.mediathatmatters.org
Twitter: @mediathtmatters

Jan Vozenilek
Jan Vozenilek is a cinematographer and photographer who’s traveled around the globe creating documentaries, music videos, travel films and corporate promotionals. He founded Copper Sky Productions in 1998.

Web: www.JanVozenilek.com

Victoria Sloan Jordan
Victoria Sloan Jordan will serve as the expedition’s part-time location scout and official Poet Laureate.

Manuel Maqueda
Manuel Maqueda is a journalist, a photographer, a veteran new media explorer and a writer and a lecturer on environmental strategy and transformations of human communication. He is involved in several leading Web and media initiatives around the world and is a co-founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Web: http://manuelmaqueda.com
Twitter: @donbribon