By Stéphanie Bérubé
La Presse
Heureusement, il y a l’art. « L’art peut éveiller les consciences, lance Ed Burtynsky. Et cet éveil est la première étape menant à un changement. »
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«Le paysage abstrait»: Edward Burtynsky, une abstraction lyrique engagée
By Stéphane Baillargeon
Le Devoir
Photographiés de très loin et de très haut par l’oeil unique du Canadien Edward Burtynsky, un étang d’eau salée du Sénégal évoque une toile de l’abstraction lyrique, le delta du Colorado fait immédiatement penser à une oeuvre de l’expressionnisme abstrait et d’autres prises encore de champs ou de mines, captées aux quatre coins du monde, rappellent les travaux de Clyfford Still, d’Hedda Sterne ou Adolph Gottlieb.
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Read MoreLEGENDARY RECORD PRODUCER BOB EZRIN DROPS BY CHOM
By Randy Renaud
CHOM 97.7
Bob Ezrin produced The Wall for Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel's debut album, Destroyer for Kiss, Alice Cooper's classic early albums, U2's latest album, as well as albums for Deep Purple, Rod Stewart, Jane's Addiction; and he dropped by the CHOM studios to discuss a new multi-media production that he is involved in, called Le Paysage Abstrait, at the Arsenal Contemporary Art Gallery all this month. Randy Renaud talks with the legendary Canadian producer about his remarkable career, and the many artists he has worked with, and Ezrin shares personal stories about Peter Gabriel, The Edge, and Pink Floyd, and reveals whether he is still friends with Roger Waters.
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Read MoreArt Exhibition Reflects on Xylella's Devastating Impact
By Ylenia Granitto
Olive Oil Times
The Sigismondo Castromediano Museum in Lecce, Puglia, will host the ‘Xylella Studies’ exhibition by the Canadian photographer and artist Edward Burtynsky, who has captured the disruption caused by Xylella fastidiosa in 12 large-format photographs and a video until September 10th.
The event is the result of a partnership with Sylva Foundation, a non-profit founded in 2021, aiming at the environmental regeneration of lands affected by Xylella fastidiosa through reforestation.
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Read MoreEdward Burtynsky Reveals the African Landscapes We Never See
By Ellyn Kail
Feature Shoot
In his new book, Edward Burtynsky recalls photographing oil bunkering sites in Nigeria’s Niger Delta as a “transformative moment of consciousness”—one that demonstrated the true scope of the wounds we inflict on our planet. With refineries spread out across the land, swaths of the environment have been drenched in oil. As the photographer leaned out of a helicopter to take in the scene, surreal colors spread out before him, as far as the eye could see.
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Read MoreIl disastro della Xylella negli scatti sugli ulivi di Edward Burtynsky
By Cecilia Pavone
Artribune
Costruire un nuovo ethos ecologico attraverso la testimonianza e la documentazione dei disastri ambientali provocati dall’azione antropica, per contrastare la crisi dell’abitare umano sulla Terra nell’era globalizzata dell’Antropocene. È questo il fulcro tematico dell’opera del canadese Edward Burtynsky (St. Catharines, 1955), fotografo di livello internazionale che ha vinto la XXV edizione del Premio Pascali con la mostra Xylella Studies, al Museo Castromediano di Lecce.Costruire un nuovo ethos ecologico attraverso la testimonianza e la documentazione dei disastri ambientali provocati dall’azione antropica, per contrastare la crisi dell’abitare umano sulla Terra nell’era globalizzata dell’Antropocene. È questo il fulcro tematico dell’opera del canadese Edward Burtynsky (St. Catharines, 1955), fotografo di livello internazionale che ha vinto la XXV edizione del Premio Pascali con la mostra Xylella Studies, al Museo Castromediano di Lecce.
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Read MoreNew Equipment Developed by Edward Burtynsky to Scan Major Photo Collection
Galleries West
The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University will digitize 25,000 press photographs of Canadian events, speeding the normally laborious work with an innovative machine developed by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky.
Burtynsky says a vast array of stunning photographs at various institutions languish in dark boxes in temperature-controlled storage with no public access.
"It's a thrill to finally be able to initiate an effective and innovative solution to this problem and bring this important photographic history into the light," he says.
Burtynsky has assembled a team of hardware and software developers to digitize the images with his equipment, known as ARKIV360, along with their folded captions, tear sheets and attached ephemera.
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Read MoreThe Image Centre receives $300,000 grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage to digitize collection of 25,000 press photographs
The Image Centre
Toronto Metropolitan University
Innovative ARKIV360 machine, developed by famed photographer Edward Burtynsky, will be used to scan The Image Centre’s Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection and make it accessible in an online database.
Toronto, ON – The Image Centre (IMC) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is pleased to announce that the Department of Canadian Heritage has granted over $300,000 to support the digitization of the IMC’s Rudolf P. Bratty Family Collection of press photographs drawn from the New York Times Photo Archive.
This funding was issued through the Digital Access to Heritage component of the Museums Assistance Program (MAP), which provides support to heritage organizations to digitize collections, develop digital content and build their capacity in these areas.
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Read MorePhotographer Edward Burtynsky brings in high-tech scanner to help digitise Inuit art
By Larry Humber
The Art Newspaper
A trove of Inuit art—some 89,000 drawings in all—was created in Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) near the southern tip of Baffin Island between 1950 and 1980, providing a way for the community in Canada’s remote Nunavut territory to generate income. But very few of those works have seen the light of day through the issuing of limited-edition prints, with the Toronto market very much in mind.
After a devastating fire destroyed a similar archive in a nearby Arctic community, the Ontario-based McMichael Canadian Art Collection moved to acquire the Cape Dorset drawings in 1990, giving them a secure home. “Inuit art was always folded into our national identity,” says Sarah Milroy, the McMichael’s chief curator, making the acquisition an obvious move.
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Read MorePhotographer Edward Burtynsky says corporations can play a role in fighting climate crisis politics
By Rita Trichur
The Globe and Mail
Report on Business
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is urging corporations to help depoliticize the climate crisis amid a growing partisan backlash against environmental issues that is particularly pronounced in the United States.
Mr. Burtynsky, who has spent his 40-year career capturing images of human-altered landscapes, wants business leaders to use their clout to ensure that Canadian society remains aligned on transitioning to a low-carbon economy.
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Read MoreKOFFLER GALLERY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE EXHIBITION OF “THE SYNAGOGUE AT BABYN YAR: TURNING THE NIGHTMARES OF EVIL INTO A SHARED DREAM OF GOOD”
The multidisciplinary exhibition tells the ongoing story of the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine and its extraordinary synagogue for the first time in its full cultural, historical, spiritual and political context.
March 16, TORONTO (ON) – Today, the Koffler Gallery, in partnership with Swiss Architect Manuel Herz and Canadian historian and curator Robert Jan van Pelt, announce the world-premiere exhibition of The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmares of Evil into a shared Dream of Good. This international exhibition is brought together with assistance from Canadian architect Douglas Birkenshaw and through architectural photography by celebrated Dutch photographer Iwan Baan. The exhibition features large-scale photographic murals directed by Ukrainian-Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky taken by Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk.
Read MorePhotographs that don’t so much confront scale as embrace it
By Mark Feeney
Boston Globe
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — By the numbers, “Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed” is a small show, with just 31 photographs. There’s also a nine-minute video showing Burtynsky at work. That’s it. Yet in ways that matter more than the merely numerical — sweep, scale, ambition, urgency — it has the heft, and impact, of a much larger show.
“Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed,” which runs through April 16 at the New Britain Museum of American Art, might be seen as a stripped-down Burtynsky career retrospective. It proceeds in roughly chronological order, with the earliest photograph from 1985, and the most recent from 2016. Five continents are represented, with only Antarctica and South America missing.
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Read More‘We’re putting all living things at high risk’: Edward Burtynsky on the launch of the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s award for climate photojournalism
By Wendy Stueck
The Globe and Mail
For decades, Edward Burtynsky has created images that show how humans affect the natural world – turning the gritty, unglamourous details of mines, dams, shipyards and factories into haunting works that call on all of us to think about our impact on the planet.
A winner of multiple prestigious awards, the photographer has collaborated with other artists to document the impact of climate change through works including In the Wake of Progress. A multi-media project, that piece premiered at the Luminato Festival in June on advertising screens at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square. Mr. Burtynsky is also one of three artists behind The Anthropocene Project, a multi-media work that investigates the impacts of humans on earth.
In December, the Canadian Journalism Foundation launched the Edward Burtynsky Award for Climate Photojournalism. The competition is open to Canadian professionals employed by, or freelancing for, domestic news outlets. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 20, 2023, with a $5,000 prize for the winner.
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Read MoreArt Installation Tells Canadian Story
Queen’s University Arts and Science
Opening event unveils the possibility of what Standing Whale could bring to Queen’s University
Standing Whale might just be a concept, the vision of Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky, but the excitement was palpable at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre last week.
Based on the story of a pod of North Atlantic Blue Whales that perished in an ice event off the coast of Newfoundland in 2014, Standing Whale is a thematic continuation of Burtynsky’s 40-year artistic practice looking at the impacts of humans on the planet. Intended to be a true-to-size, 75-foot artistic re-imagining inspired by the retrieved skeletons that washed ashore in 2014, Standing Whale is an acknowledgement to the power of telling our human stories, only this time as a three-dimensional sculpture rather than a two-dimensional image.
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Read MoreL’arte e l’umanità di Edward Burtynsky al Festival delle Scienze di Roma: “Le fotografie raccontano l’impatto dell’uomo sulla Terra”
National Geographic Italia
By Carlo Andriani
In collaborazione con Fondazione Sylva, il fotografo Edward Burtynsky presenta al Festival delle Scienze di Roma la mostra dedicata alla distruzione del patrimonio arboreo millenario causata dal batterio “Xylella fastidiosa".
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Read MoreSt. Catharines to Collaborate with Burtynsky on Major Public Artwork Marking Former GM Site
Edward Burtynsky on the Power Artists Have to Inspire Climate Action
CBC Radio | What on Earth
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has devoted much of his career to highlighting the ways humanity impacts the planet.
And he's setting out to do again with his latest art installation, In the Wake of Progress, which will take over all of the screens at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto this weekend. The project will include photography and film starting with verdant untouched forests followed by images of the many ways humans have impacted the planet with practices like mining and deforestation.
Burtynsky spoke to What On Earth host Laura Lynch in his studio in Toronto about his latest public art project and how his role as an artist and advocate for the environment has changed over the course of his career. Here is part of their conversation.
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Edward Burtynsky shares Sony World Photography Award honour with Ukraine’s photographers
By Kate Taylor
The Globe and Mail
“Photography embodies truth in a way that transcends language, culture, borders, and time. In the face of fake news and Putin’s vicious disinformation campaign, Ukrainian photographers are using this moment to show the world the truth.
“Their dedication to their art, even as their towns are surrounded by invading Russian forces bringing terror to their doorsteps, is a bravery that humbles me.
“Photography is about light conquering darkness. And as we speak, Ukrainian photographers are conquering an unimaginable form of darkness. I can think of no more outstanding contribution to photography than that.”
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