Image glut

Installation by Erik Kessels at Foam Amsterdam (original link here)

Making the image glut tangible ... Erik Kessels filled the rooms of Foam Amsterdam with the number of printed pictures that are uploaded on Flickr every 24 hours. That's more than one million photos. What does this mean? Should it give us photographers pause? Time to hang the Leica in the willows and do something else? Maybe we have to consider this: billions of words have been written and yet this does not keep poets and writers from carving out niches of sense in this endless sea of words. Here, as a beacon in this oceanic space of non-sense, is a beautiful poem, with photographic overtones, by an artist I only recently discovered (originally published here).