Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait

A look at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper, 106,000 aluminum cans, and so on.

The images representing these quantities have a different effect than the raw numbers alone. This project visually examines the vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

(via Reality Carnival)