Video: 7 days of trash: a shocking cycle from an American photographer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Italian writer Alberto Moravia once remarked: "The road to civilization is paved with cans." The more rapidly humanity develops, the more all kinds of garbage accumulates on the planet. The environmental crisis was clearly demonstrated by the photographer Gregg Segal in a shocking cycle of works "7 Days of Garbage".
Photographer Gregg Segal from California is seriously concerned about the "garbage" problem in the United States. Every year the consumer society "swallows" an increasing amount of goods, throwing away piles of things that have become unnecessary, and tons of packages. In order to really assess the scale of the disaster, Gregg Segal invited people from different social backgrounds to participate in the project. Among those who responded were not only his friends, neighbors, acquaintances, but also strangers who are not indifferent to environmental issues.
Gregg Segal suggested that all participants not throw out the trash for a week, and then come to his site with heaps of trash. By spreading everything that should have been thrown out on grass, sand and on the surface of the water, he demonstrated how much waste accumulates in a person in just 7 days.
Some of the participants tried to pack the most unsightly garbage in special bags, while others, on the contrary, put them on display. Empty shipping boxes, crumpled napkins, orange peels and empty bottles are just a few of what people throw away every day. It is curious that garbage can tell a lot about a person: his eating habits, hobbies, occupation. It is not for nothing that finding a trash heap in archeology is considered a great success.
Gregg Segal is sure that such a snapshot of our society can be useful to sociologists, he compares the heaps of garbage in his photographs with beds that we have created for ourselves and on which we lie down with pleasure, trying not to notice anything and not feel disgust.
The photographer hopes that his photo cycle will help educate Americans, because most of what we throw away is simply unnecessary for us. Abundance breeds greed and imprudence in the consumption of goods. Commenting on the idea for the photo cycle, Gregg Segal notes: “I hope people see a lot of 'extra' rubbish that they might not be producing. However, I know that this is not their fault, they are just cogs in a single mechanism of consumption, however, their inaction can be harmful. There are basic steps you can take to gradually reduce the amount of waste you throw away."
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