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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