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By Roger Highfield

30 November 2011

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science

EVER wondered how many images are uploaded to Flickr every day? That question lies at the heart of this installation by Dutch curator , part of an exhibition at the 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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