We live in a world where everyone has to share everything with anyone; it's like social networking on steroids. And thanks to this digital age, everyone is a self-proclaimed photographer. Photography is an art, and not an easy one. But these days, any Tom, Dick or Harry can click a lame picture of a sunset, claim to be a budding photographer.

Erik Kessels, an artist, has nailed this issue by taking print outs of images uploaded within 24 hours on Flickr. He ended up with more than one million images.
























As a part of an exhibition in Amsterdam, called 'What's Next?' that looks into the future of photography, Kessels chose to literally display the overload of images in internet these days. He filled a room with one million pictures, and looking at them, one can see that these 'creative' images are nothing but a huge pile taking up all that space.

This is what Kessels has to say about his project:

“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 un-selfconsciously displayed. By printing all the images uploaded in a 24-hour period, I visualize the feeling of drowning in representations of other peoples’ experiences.”

Thank goodness, he decided to print out 24 hours of images and not every single image hosted on popular photo-sharing site Flickr, otherwise he would've had to make some massive arrangements for printing out over 6 billion images.

All of us are very well aware that social networking has made everyone a writer or a photographer, but is this information or perhaps creativity overload getting a little out of hands? Let us know in the comment section below:

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