7 days of waste: impressive portraits of people in their trash (PHOTO)

    How much garbage do we produce in a week? It is difficult to imagine it, but from today it is a little less so thanks to the photographer Gregg Segal, who made visible the monstrous amount of waste produced in just 7 days. His series, 7 days of Garbage, is an intimate and disturbing cross-section of people posing in their garbage, a daily life that damages the Planet and that we struggle to recognize.



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    How much garbage do we produce in a week? It is difficult to imagine it, but from today it is a little less so thanks to the photographer Gregg Segal, which made visible the monstrous amount of waste produced in just 7 days.

    His series, 7 days of Garbage, 7 days of garbage, is an intimate and disturbing cross-section of people posing in their garbage, a daily life that damages the Planet and that we struggle to recognize.

    “7 days of Garbage is a series of portraits of friends, neighbors and acquaintances with the rubbish they have accumulated over the course of a week. The subjects are photographed surrounded by their waste in an environment that is partly a nest, partly an archaeological find. We built our bed and we lie in it ”, explains the artist.

    Most of us are aware of the severe pollution crisis on the planet, but we still tend to ignore the real problem, and above all that we are the solution. The series, which portrays groups of people from different social classes, does a lot to help us consider the downstream consequences of our purchasing choices - and reflect on alternatives.

    7 days of waste: impressive portraits of people in their trash (PHOTO)

    7 days of waste: impressive portraits of people in their trash (PHOTO)


    7 days of waste: impressive portraits of people in their trash (PHOTO)

    7 days of waste: impressive portraits of people in their trash (PHOTO)


    The result is, indeed, shocking. In portraying the characters in natural environments, the pollution becomes more evident and unpleasant: a reflection on the fragility of our planet and on the terrible imprint we are leaving.

    Roberta Ragni

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