Human photography essay

In Praise of Hoarding

Or how minimalism is bad. Or don’t be too quick to give away your stuff or lend it out. Or towards an anti “Marie Kando” approach:

Ignore the morals and ethics of hoarding

In modern American society, to hoard is seen as a disease. Minimalism is just another form of consumerism. For example we get rid of all our shit, just so we have a good conscience to buy new stuff … but under the pretense that I will be a more virtuous and “less wasteful person”, and that “having a few things of high quality” is superior than having lots of stuff with poor quality.

But now that COVID has hit us … it seems all the “hoarders” are probably the best off!

ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.