Russia – July, 2019. Danila, 16. Plastic bags, expanded polystyrene, foil plastic, tetra packs, thermal film, green glass, metal cover, polypropylene packaging, high-density polyethylene, napkin, unmarked plastic, cotton fiber, a slice of ice cream.
It is terrible to disappear – I want to leave a mark. Something weighty, eternal. Is it possible? The world has become a supermarket; things are disposable; people are consumers. Our main ability is purchasing. Everyone dreams of developing this talent. Is not it so? To afford even more. Humanity annually produces more than 2 billion tons of waste. It seems that we leave behind only trash. The irony is that it is immortal. I decided to make a generalized “consumer portrait”, using the garbage of heroes as a metaphor. First, I took pictures of the garbage itself and made masks from photographs. Then I shot masked heroes and talked to them about consumerism and the waste problem. Is there a problem?
Irina Heinz — photographer and artist from St. Petersburg, graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a degree in Culture and Literature of Foreign Countries, a student at the Academy of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism «Fotografika». Works with themes of consumerism, ecology, new concepts of human development, memory, feeling of generation.
Irina, great idea! I love your approach to our problem with consumerism. You are right, we need to make noise to try to change and be more responsible with the environment and with ourselves.
Irina, great idea! I love your approach to our problem with consumerism. You are right, we need to make noise to try to change and be more responsible with the environment and with ourselves.