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EVER wondered how many images are uploaded to Flickr every day? That question lies at the heart of this installation by Dutch curator Erik Kessels, part of an exhibition at the Foam photography museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The answer is around a million. The installation is made up of print-outs of images posted on Flickr during a single 24-hour period. Kessels hopes this avalanche will highlight how the rise of digital photography has swamped us in…

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