By Mariah Alanskas
Fast Company
Edward Burtnysky has documented human impact on the environment for decades. A new show examines just how much damage we’ve done.
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Edward Burtynsky’s photographs convey the force of mankind’s reordering of the environment
By Ben Sutton
The Art Newspaper
The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has spent more than 40 years chronicling the many ways that humans have remade the natural landscape to suit their wants and needs. His work has taken him from greenhouses in Ontario, oilfields in Texas and suburban developments in the Arizona desert to e-waste recycling communities in China, shipbreaking yards in Bangladesh and clothing factories in Ethiopia. Now, more than 70 of his photographs from 1981 onwards are on view in Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration (until 28 September), a retrospective at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York curated by the centre’s creative director, David Campany.
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A Conversation with Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration at ICP
By Ellen Cory
Musée Magazine
The Great Acceleration is Edward Burtynsky’s first solo institutional show in New York in over twenty years. It brings together more than seventy images that reveal how humans have transformed landscapes worldwide, showing both their fragile beauty and the urgent challenges we face. Curated by David Campany at ICP and opening on June 19th, the exhibition is a call to action that echoes ICP’s dedication to concerned photography. In this conversation, Burtynsky shares his perspective after decades spent documenting a planet constantly changing under our hands.
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Read More"A Paradox": The Dilemma Of Environmental Art
By Daniel Nash
Billionaire Magazine
How do you balance the need to show the realistic devastation wrought on the planet, with needing to create a work of beauty?
It's a paradox I've lived with for decades. The beauty is the hook. It draws people in. But then there’s the dissonance. Once you’re close, you realize the subject is industrial scars, mining pits, or polluted rivers. That moment of realization, that tension between form and content, is exactly where I want people to linger. The work isn’t about condemnation. It’s about comprehension. I believe beauty can be a powerful way to hold attention, to provoke thought, and to give difficult subjects a chance to be truly seen, even in domestic or personal spaces.
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Read MorePhotographer’s Project Captures China’s Growing Influence in Africa
By Matt Growcoot
PetaPixel
Edward Burtynsky has been photographing human industry for decades and a new show focuses on China’s evolving role in global manufacturing.
Captured between 2018 and late 2024, Burtynsky’s work — frequently captured on large format cameras — captures the transformation of China’s domestic production systems to the expansion of its industrial footprint across the African continent.
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Read MoreChina, from world’s factory to builder of African industry, in dramatic photographs
By Kylie Knott
South China Morning Post
Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky was 11 years old when he saw a newspaper advert for cameras and dark room equipment.
“The seller was just three blocks away, so my dad said ‘Let’s take a look’,” Burtynsky, now 70, recalls.
“There were enlargers, lenses, three Minolta cameras and bulk loaders and cassettes and two 100ft (30 metre) rolls of film as well as all the chemicals and trays needed for a dark room.”
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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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Read MoreTen striking images of an Earth scarred by humans
BBC
Photographer Ed Burtynsky has been capturing the impact of humans on Earth for over 40 years. Here are ten of his most striking shots, from a shipwrecking yard in Bangladesh to rivers of iron dioxide in Canada. This June, the International Center of Photography in New York is dedicating a retrospective to The Great Acceleration, the seminal work of the Canadian artist.
Video by Anna Bressanin, filmed by Darryl Laiu
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Rio Tinto - Things You Can’t Live Without
Season 2, Episode 3
Revered photographic artist Edward Burtynsky shares how his carbon-fibre camera tripod has become indispensable in his documentation of human impacts on the planet. He tells Dr Anna about his artistic approach to industrial landscapes, especially those affected by fuel production.
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Read MorePhotos are Disappearing, One Archive at a Time
By Kira Pollack
Washington Post
Photographer Edward Burtynsky, known for his dramatic landscapes, has been pioneering a solution to one of the greatest challenges in preservation: scale. Burtynsky developed a high-tech scanner designed to digitize and catalogue images at an unprecedented rate — up to 2,000 per day. What used to take years can now take months. The system functions like a precision turntable, scanning both sides of prints simultaneously with high-resolution cameras and synchronized strobe lighting.
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Read MoreEdward Burtynsky looks back at four decades of photography in talk at Concordia
By Alena Vo
The Concordian
On the evening of Jan. 22, the Hall building was abuzz with activity. Outside the auditorium, a line snaked from one end of the room to the other. Everyone was there for one purpose: to listen to Edward Burtynsky speak about his work.
The landscape photographer sat down in conversation with Zoë Tousignant, the curator of photography at the McCord Stewart Museum. He was this year's guest for the Wild Talks Lecture Series, an annual event hosted in honor of Catherine Wild, the former dean of Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts.
Burtynsky originally hails from St. Catharines, Ontario, where he began taking pictures at age 12. Since then, he's grown from “the kid with the camera” to a world-renowned photographer riding helicopters to capture breathtaking shots of the Earth, or more accurately, of the scars we've left upon it.
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Read MorePhotographer Edward Burtynsky captures beauty in destruction
By Jackie Rourke
Concordia University
Edward Burtynsky, internationally renowned for his large-scale photographs that illustrate the impact of human industry on the planet, says the goal of his art has always been to evoke a sense of wonder and curiosity.
Burtynsky was invited to Concordia on January 22 as part of the university’s 50th anniversary to deliver the annual Wild Talks lecture. Photos from the event can be viewed on Flickr.
In his sold-out talk, delivered before an audience of 650 guests in the Sir George Williams University Alumni Auditorium, Burtynsky discussed the evolution of his celebrated career with moderator Zoë Tousignant, BFA 03, PhD 13, curator of photography at the McCord Stewart Museum.
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Read MoreEdward Burtynsky: A Message From the Mountains
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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