The summer between 7th and 8th grade Jordan shattered his leg trying to skateboard off a 6-foot high ramp. His father gave him a camera and he began to document through photography his friends skateboarding. This afforded him a way to continue to participate in the very activity that his accident had prevented. Photography remained a steadfast hobby of Jordan's until his sister (at the time a freshman Graphic Design major at Boston University) brought him a History of Photography textbook. After Jordan saw Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Behind the Gare St. Lazare," he realized the importance of photography as an art form and as a tool of communication. It was that moment of art awakening that cemented Jordan's decision to take on photography not only as a career but also as his life's passion.

While a senior at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia he happened to be driving aimlessly around the rural area outside his hometown when he came across a farmer in his mid-80s named Harry Westerby. He had glaucoma and scoliosis yet he possessed the passion and zeal to tend his animals more capably than any "able bodied" person Jordan had ever met. He had no one to help him and could not afford to hire outside workers. Harry had a simple, yet amazing story and Jordan wanted to capture it with a photograph. Jordan thought to himself, "If I had driven past this man's farm for years without looking twice there must be incredible amounts of people in this situation all over the United States that are similarly disregarded." It became his duty and calling as an artist to photograph these everyday people and bring light to their current role in America.