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It is the last piece of unpolished Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a Saturday night, artists \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/aldovandenbroek.nl\"\u003eAldo van den Broek\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/deltainc.nl\"\u003eBoris Tellegen\u003c\/a\u003e walked from Amstel through the tunnel to the end blocks at Centraal Station in about four hours. Every five metres they took a picture, one taking care of the left side, the other the right. At the stations they crept silently along the platform, hoping not to be noticed by the station cameras. They took more than 2,000 photos, going down several times to re-photograph parts of the tunnel. Mounted together, the photos form an image 15 cm high and 12.5 metres long for each stretch between two stations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the first tags, hundreds of people have gone down to leave their names. 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