Whyte Museum
Banff, Alberta

Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict. Vast human-altered landscapes expose the astounding scale of infrastructure and destruction fuelled by enterprise and consumption.

Burtynsky’s photography is held in over 60 major museums around the world including the Whyte Museum whose holding include 36 works dating from 1983 to 2012. The exhibition features an overview of the Burtynsky collection.