Portraits of people in 7 days' worth of their own garbage

Lya, Whitney and Kathrin.

Gregg Segal's beautiful photographs of people lying around in a week's worth of their own trash are making the internet rounds this week.

The Altadena, California-based photographer's "7 Days of Garbage" portrait series from January, 2014 features friends, neighbors, and strangers in Southern California surrounded by a week's worth of the rubbish they generate in their daily lives.

More: fence.photovillenyc.org | greggsegal.com.

Susan.

John.

Alfie, Kirsten, Miles and Elly.

Elias, Jessica, Azai and Ri-karlo.

Sam and Jane.

Milt.

Dana.

Michael, Jason, Annie and Olivia

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