By Mike Balsom
Niagara-on-the-Lake Local
Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress is a stunning distress signal for an Earth under threat by climate change.
As such, the 20-minute immersive film and sound experience acts as the perfect centrepiece to Art in Action: Climate, a 10-day event aiming to “illuminate the beauty and fragility of our planet,” while also reflecting on the cost of progress.
The St. Catharines native has spent four decades turning his lens toward the destruction wreaked upon the world by humans. Like his previous films—Manufactured Landscapes (2006), Watermark (2013) and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)—In the Wake of Progress, presents awe-inspiring visuals to sound the alarm on the profound and long-lasting effects of an ever-expanding population.
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