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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By Katherine Fawcewtt
Whistler Traveller

Art is a powerful force with endless outcomes. Its beauty can inspire and uplift. Its message can provoke, entertain, and enlighten. And its poignancy can also be a sobering call to action.

The internationally acclaimed, Toronto-based artist and photographer Edward Burtynsky knows these forces well. His images, while stunning to look at, feature serious themes that cannot be ignored. Over the past 40 years, Burtynsky has focused his lens on the impact human industry has had upon the earth. The Audain Art Museum’s (AAM) upcoming exhibition, The Coast Mountains: Recent Works by Edward Burtynsky, will provide a spectacular bird’s-eye view of the splendour of the local environment while highlighting the issue of shrinking glaciers because of climate change.

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