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Ranger Rover: Revelatory—Burtynsky’s Aerial Insights

By Leslie Anthony
Pique Magazine

Ed Burtynsky is excited to talk about the Black Tusk. 

We’re at the end of a walk-and-talk with the celebrated Canadian photo-artist for the opening of his new exhibit at the Audain Art Museum. On until Sept. 15 and part of the 2025 Capture Photography Festival, The Coast Mountains: Recent Works by Edward Burtynsky occupies the Audain’s signature upper gallery space. Introduced a few minutes prior by Audain director Curtis Collins, Burtynsky has led us past six other massive, wall-shrinking images while sharing thoughts on his favoured large-format cameras, the process of capturing such shots by helicopter, the post-production need to deal with haze from wildfire smoke, and how the works juxtapose the pristine grandeur of B.C.’s mountains with glacier retreat due to climate change. 

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