Daniel Browning
The Art Show | ABC Radio National

Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian-Ukrainian photographer who captures human activity on Earth that's normally too big to perceive, except through aerial photography.

His scenes of rapid industrialisation and large-scale pollution characterise the Anthropocene, the idea that we are in the age of man-made environmental crisis. So how does he pick his monumental subjects? And what has he witnessed over his 40-year career?

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By Neha Kale
The Saturday Paper

Caspar David Friedrich’s unsettling vision of the sublime is a key inspiration for Edward Burtynsky’s chronicles of human destruction of the natural world.

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By Declan Bowring
ABC Radio Sydney

Photographer Edward Burtynsky has spent his life trying to capture the environmental cost of civilisation and he is struggling to keep up.

"The world's making more of my subject every day," Mr Burtynsky told ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast presenter James Valentine.

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By Nick Galvin
The Sydney Morning Herald

Pedestrians passing through Darlinghurst’s Taylor Square will next week be confronted by three massive electronic screens showing startling images of global industrial landscapes.

Called In the Wake of Progress and accompanied by an original score, the epic multimedia project is a clarion call for action on climate change.

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Australian Photography

The work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky – known for his large-scale depictions of humanity's impact on the planet – are set to blanket Sydney’s Oxford Street precinct from next week.

Towering across three immense nine-metre screens, Burtynsky’s new work, In the Wake of Progress, will 'envelop and illuminate' Taylor Square from 25 August until 18 September as part of the Sydney Festival.

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