By Jeff Wall
with photographs by Edward Burtynsky
The Globe and Mail

The Port Weller dry docks are a marvel to behold: two rectangular gashes in the Earth, more than 225 metres long—like laying Toronto’s TD Bank Tower on its side. The bigger of the two, 24 metres across, is as deep as a three-storey house, its walls made of pockmarked concrete and dark corrugated metal. Monstrous double doors, like the gateway to a Tolkienesque fortress, keep at bay the flat, blue-green waters of the Welland Canal on the other side.

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By Dawna Calleja
The Globe and Mail

This month, his work appears in our pages, too—and not for the first time. Our long-time photo director, Clare Vander Meersch, first met Burtynsky in the mid-1990s, at Toronto Image Works, the photo lab and darkroom rental facility he opened in 1985 and which became a hub for the city’s photographers, Clare among them. “Long before his work gained international recognition,” she says, “Ed was well known as an early pioneer of environmental landscape photography.”

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