Ludwig Museum
Koblenz, Germany
Meet Edward Burtynsky for an artist talk on 11 May at 6 pm. Before the artist will be honoured at "Photo London" as "Photographer of the Year", he will come to the Ludwig Museum and talk about his artistic subjects and the preservation of natural resources.
Ludwig Museum
Koblenz, Germany
On display are examples from his recent series ‘Aqua Shock’, for which Burtynsky crisscrossed five continents to explore extreme ecological situations and to record not only the reserves, but the use, distribution and waste of water. He reveals the dangers that lie in the ongoing exploitation of water resources. In his own words: ‘I wanted to trace the evidence of global thirst and threatened sources. Water is part of a pattern I’ve watched unfold throughout my career. I document landscapes that, whether you think of them as beautiful or monstrous, or as some strange combination of the two, are clearly not vistas of an inexhaustible, sustainable world.’– Edward Burtynsky (Walrus, October 2013).
