In 2011, self-taught photographer Antoine Repess stopped throwing things away. Along with 200 friends and colleagues, he accumulated around 70 cubic meters (or 18,000 liquid gallons) of recyclable waste. After he filled his flat in France to the brim with toilet rolls, newspapers, water bottles, cans and boxes -- he organized a photo shoot.

"We're often told about the quantity of waste we produce, but I think the impact of pictures can be much powerful than words," Repess told The Huffington Post. And so he enlisted friends to pose amongst the heaps of trash that encrusted his floors and stretched up the walls like massive, invincible creatures. The series, titled "#365 Unpacked," shows the invisible aftermath of our consumerist habits, a disturbing vision of the messes often kept out of sight and out of mind.