Each year in the whole world we waste approximately 1 billion 300 million tonnes of food, which stands for one-third of total produced goods. In Poland, every second 153 kilograms of food is thrown away, in the whole food distribution chane. Only Polish households generate waste of as much as 92 kilograms.Prevailing consumptionism, overproduction, malfunctioning chains of food distribution or imperfect regulations are just a few main reasons for this phenomenon happening all around us.What is more, the crisis is intensified with another common practice of wrapping food products with huge amounts of plastic. It often surpasses the protected product.
AFTERLIFE captures the wide-spreading food crisis taking place in our closest environment, which many are not aware of. The number of people living around the world is rising rapidly. In some time it might put our whole civilization at the critical moment of living on earth.
The pictures included in the project were shot at the shop's dumpster sites in Kraków, Poland and in the space of the Food Bank in Kraków, belonging to the Polish Federation of Food Banks. The main goal of this organization is to save food from being wasted and redistribute to those in need.
All of the items depicted below were to be expired soon.
