Chris Jordan

Skull With Cigarette, 2007 [based on a painting by Van Gogh] 72x98"
Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months.

Just one part of a project titled Running The Numbers, An American Self Portrait, by Chris Jordan.
It aims to visually examine the vast and bizarre measures of American society, through statistics. Each image porttrays a specific quantity of something, in the case above its, cigarette boxes, which then created a larger image through the numerous smaller photographs.
This style of work creates a 'double-take' effect where viewers have to have a second look at the work in order to understand the full picture and the true meaning behind it.
He explores lots of other materials too, quite interesting really.