Musée de Dieppe
Dieppe, FR

A paradoxical beauty. Edward Burtynsky's photographs challenge as much by their graphic aestheticism as by the disasters of industrial gigantism on the nature they depict. With the exhibition Mounds and Voids: From Human to Global Scale , the Canadian photographer puts in images "the full and the empty" linked to the human extraction of the riches of the subsoil as well as their impacts on the landscapes, the hands of works and populations. What emerges are striking panoramas captured in places kept away from favored urban areas: coal pyramids in China, plastic dumps in Kenya, oil spilled on the sand in Canada, piles of millions of used tires in California ...