7 days of trash— a shocking cycle of works from Gregg Segal Bashny.Net

Italian writer Alberto Moravia once remarked: "the Road of civilization is paved with tin cans". More rapidly than humanity develops, the more all kinds of trash accumulate on the planet. The crisis of the environment is clearly demonstrated by the photographer Greg Segal (Gregg Segal) in a shocking series of works "7 days garbage" (7 Days of Garbage").



Photographer Gregg Segal from California seriously concerned about the "garbage" problem in the United States. Every year the society of consumption "suck" more and more goods, throwing away the piles of stuff that has become junk, and tons of packages. In order to really appreciate the scale of the disaster, Gregg Segal invited to participate in the project of people from different social strata. Among those who responded, were not only his friends, neighbors and acquaintances, but also strangers who are not indifferent to environmental issues.

Gregg Segal invited all the participants a week to empty the trash, and then come to his site with heaps of rubbish. Putting everything that had to be thrown out on the grass, the sand and the surface of the water, he demonstrated how much waste accumulates in a person in just 7 days.

7 days of garbage: the photocycle from Gregg Segal (Gregg Segal)

Someone of the participants tried to pack the most unsightly trash in special bags, and someone on the contrary exposed for everyone to see. Empty packing boxes, crumpled napkins, orange peels and empty bottles – this is only a small fraction of what is daily thrown out by people. Curiously, the garbage can tell a lot about a person, his food habits, Hobbies, occupation. No wonder they find a garbage heap in archaeology is considered a big success.



Gregg Segal is confident that such section of our society can be useful to sociologists, it compares heaps of garbage in their photos with the beds we've made for ourselves and which are fun to sit down, trying not to notice anything and not feel disgust.



The photographer hopes his photocycle will foster the consciousness of Americans, because most of what we throw away, we simply unnecessary. Abundance begets greed and folly in the consumption of goods. Commenting on the idea of the photocycle, Gregg Segal said: "I hope that people will see a lot of "extra" garbage they would produce. However, I know that this is not their fault, they are just cogs in a unified mechanism of consumption, however, their inaction could be disastrous. There are basic steps that you can take to gradually reduce the amount of waste".

Source: 7ly.ru/2014/07/15/shokiruyushhie-7-dnej-musora/