With content pouring in from cameras and smartphones all around the world, it’s not surprising that Flickr gains over a million new photos every single day. It’s a fact you probably wouldn’t give much thought to, until you see photographer Erik Kessels’ latest exhibit where he printed and filled a gallery with a day’s worth of Flickr uploads.
The installation, which fills multiple rooms at the Foam gallery in Amsterdam, illustrates how digital photography, and sites like Flickr and Facebook, have literally flooded the internet with photos. To the point where we’re “drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences” according to Kessels.
Like doing a photo search on Google, the mountains of photos in the gallery are overwhelming, making it almost impossible to take them all in. But, like with Scrooge McDuck and his money bin, I like the idea of being able to dive and swim around in a room filled with photos. Paper cuts be damned!
[Foam via CreativeReview]
Pyta
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 5:01 PMGoodbye Amazon Forest…….
Titsnass
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 5:03 PMSorry, all I can see is a complete and very expensive waste of paper and ink! Although I suppose the paper can be recycled, but not the ink!
Jack Frost
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 5:03 PMIsnt that invading some kind of privacy law having all of those peoples pics without their consent?
Mogwai888000
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 5:45 PMdepends on what flickr license they used. probably not.
DarthDVD
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 5:26 PMI’m sure its also breaking some copyright laws as well…
me
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 6:34 PMI wonder if he has added a photo of these photo’s?
Paul
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 6:44 PMEven if you could print and cut each one for 10c, that’s still a $100k installation.
If he was an Aussie, he probably would have got a grant for it.
Vuunik
Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 8:19 PMDon’t want your material copied don’t publish it online. It’s that simple.
Kendal
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 6:41 PMApparently art means rather than simply asking, “I wonder what a day’s worth of Flickr printouts would look like…?” it means taking a huge toxic dump in the toilet we call the environment.
Thanks for showing us what douchery in the name of art means Erik.
Maybe you could take this out to a wetland and bury it, or burn it down in the Antarctic, or bail it up and drop it on some endangered species. That’d really be pushing the envelope and opening a meaningful dialogue.Tool.