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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[Re-release from original interview in September 2023] After more than 40 years photographing the industrial sublime around the world, Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky's new project brings him home to St. Catharines, Ont. He's taking an abandoned relic – a 68,000-kilogram sheet metal forge from the former General Motors auto plant, where both Burtynsky and his father worked – and turning it into a sculpture memorializing the industry and people that once drove life in his hometown. He joins Piya Chattopadhyay to talk about his upbringing, the resource industries that define his career and his ongoing work to make audiences connect his beautiful images to the rapid destruction of our planet.
Listen to the full interview here.
Read MoreCBC The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay
After more than 40 years photographing the industrial sublime around the world, Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky's new project brings him home to St. Catharines, Ont. He's taking an abandoned relic – a 68,000-kilogram sheet metal forge from the former General Motors auto plant, where both Burtynsky and his father worked – and turning it into a sculpture memorializing the industry and people that once drove life in his hometown. He joins Chattopadhyay to talk about his upbringing, the resource industries that define his career and his ongoing work to make his audience connect his beautiful images to the rapid destruction of our planet.
Listen to the segment here.
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