Large Format Photos Capture Humanity’s Destruction of Earth
Photographer Edward Burtynsky has spent his career capturing stunning large format photographs that -- despite their beauty -- actually show the damage that's being done to the planet.
Photographer Edward Burtynsky has spent his career capturing stunning large format photographs that -- despite their beauty -- actually show the damage that's being done to the planet.
Edward Burtynsky is a legendary Canadian fine art photographer who specializes in chronicling the extraction and destruction of the earth and it’s minerals, mines and more. His images bring a painterly beauty to the banal.
The aerial photography work of Edward Burtynsky is spectacular. So much so that Canadian filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier -- the creators of the Burtynsky documentary Manufactured Landscapes -- are featuring him in yet another visual stunner called Watermark.
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky classifies the predominant theme of his work as "nature transformed through industry." And his fantastic series of aquatic aerial photographs, dubbed Water, perfectly exemplifies that.