24 hours in photos

For his contribution to the 'Future of the Photography Museum' exhibition at the FOAM museum in Amsterdam, Erik Kessels turned to Flickr. Kessels printed every photo uploaded to the photo sharing site within a 24-hour period and threw the avalanche of prints into a room to demonstrate the overwhelming amount of photos that are shared every single day.
Says Kessels of '24 Hours in Photos,' "We're exposed to an overload of images nowadays. This glut is in large part the result of image-sharing sites like Flickr, networking sites like Facebook, and picture-based search engines. Their content mingles public and private, with the very personal being openly and unselfconsciously displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualize the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples' experiences."