Is the Internet a Photographic Goldmine?

In 2014, an average of 1.8 billion digital images were uploaded to the internet every single day.

Source: Mary Meeker’s 2014 KPCB internet trends report.

That’s 660 billion photos every year, and given the growth in the use of smart-phones and social media sites, the number has likely grown to well over a trillion. It is impossible to estimate how many are actually taken and not shared, but we could speculate that it would be a great deal more.

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Britain Revealed by International Photographers.

Barbican Art Gallery, London, till 19th of June 2016.

If you don’t see any other photography exhibitions this year, this one is worth checking out – and there’s only two weeks left, so hurry!

Curated by Britain’s own Magnum Master, Martin Parr, the works assembled for the show cover a period from the 1930’s to the present day. Among the features photographers are names just about anyone would recognize, including Robert Frank, Paul Strand, Bruce Davidson and Garry Winogrand.

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