CBC Radio: The Sunday Magazine

[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.