By Ariella Budik
Financial Times
Activist or aesthete? Poet or propagandist? Redeemer or pornographer of disaster? Where does Edward Burtynsky, the creator of massive photographs of our ravaged planet, stand on the relationship between his art and impoverished nature? A retrospective of Burtynsky’s four-decade (and counting) career at the International Center of Photography in New York doesn’t answer the question, but it gives viewers plenty of ammunition with which to support whatever conclusion they choose.
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Read MoreBy Ben Sutton
The Art Newspaper
The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has spent more than 40 years chronicling the many ways that humans have remade the natural landscape to suit their wants and needs. His work has taken him from greenhouses in Ontario, oilfields in Texas and suburban developments in the Arizona desert to e-waste recycling communities in China, shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh and clothing factories in Ethiopia. Now, more than 70 of his photographs from 1981 onwards are on view in Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration (until 28 September), a retrospective at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York curated by the centre’s creative director, David Campany.
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Read MoreBBC
Photographer Ed Burtynsky has been capturing the impact of humans on Earth for over 40 years. Here are ten of his most striking shots, from a shipwrecking yard in Bangladesh to rivers of iron dioxide in Canada. This June, the International Center of Photography in New York is dedicating a retrospective to The Great Acceleration, the seminal work of the Canadian artist.
Video by Anna Bressanin, filmed by Darryl Laiu
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