By Saffron Ward
Aesthetica Magazine
In November 2022, the world’s population hit 8 billion – a staggering milestone. Although the growth rate is slowing, the resources needed to support human life remain out of reach. Approximately 1.75 Earths are needed to sustain current activity. Therefore, the natural world has been morphing into something altogether different for centuries. In 2019, the United Nation’s global assessment report stated that 75% of ice-free land has been significantly changed by society, from agriculture to housing and industry. This “terrible beauty” is the subject of Edward Burtynsky’s (b. 1955) large-scale photographic works.
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Read MoreBy Grace Ebert
Colossal
Renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky approaches his latest project with curiosity about the future of human impact and globalization. From the diamond mines of South Africa to the richly textured landscape of Namibia’s Tsaus Mountains, African Studies spotlights the sub-Saharan region and its reserves of metals, salt, precious gemstones, and other ores. “I am surveying two very distinct aspects of the landscape,” he says in a statement, “that of the earth as something intact, undisturbed yet implicitly vulnerable… and that of the earth as opened up by the systematic extraction of resources.”
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Read MoreThe multidisciplinary exhibition tells the ongoing story of the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine and its extraordinary synagogue for the first time in its full cultural, historical, spiritual and political context.
March 16, TORONTO (ON) – Today, the Koffler Gallery, in partnership with Swiss Architect Manuel Herz and Canadian historian and curator Robert Jan van Pelt, announce the world-premiere exhibition of The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmares of Evil into a shared Dream of Good. This international exhibition is brought together with assistance from Canadian architect Douglas Birkenshaw and through architectural photography by celebrated Dutch photographer Iwan Baan. The exhibition features large-scale photographic murals directed by Ukrainian-Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky taken by Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk.
Read MoreBy Mary Harper
BBC News Africa
For the past 40 years, Edward Burtynsky has photographed the impact of human industry on the planet and for his latest collection, African Studies, he travelled across the continent taking photos from above. He spoke to the BBC's Mary Harper.
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Read MoreBy Mark Feeney
Boston Globe
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — By the numbers, “Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed” is a small show, with just 31 photographs. There’s also a nine-minute video showing Burtynsky at work. That’s it. Yet in ways that matter more than the merely numerical — sweep, scale, ambition, urgency — it has the heft, and impact, of a much larger show.
“Edward Burtynsky: Earth Observed,” which runs through April 16 at the New Britain Museum of American Art, might be seen as a stripped-down Burtynsky career retrospective. It proceeds in roughly chronological order, with the earliest photograph from 1985, and the most recent from 2016. Five continents are represented, with only Antarctica and South America missing.
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Read MoreBy Wendy Stueck
The Globe and Mail
For decades, Edward Burtynsky has created images that show how humans affect the natural world – turning the gritty, unglamourous details of mines, dams, shipyards and factories into haunting works that call on all of us to think about our impact on the planet.
A winner of multiple prestigious awards, the photographer has collaborated with other artists to document the impact of climate change through works including In the Wake of Progress. A multi-media project, that piece premiered at the Luminato Festival in June on advertising screens at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square. Mr. Burtynsky is also one of three artists behind The Anthropocene Project, a multi-media work that investigates the impacts of humans on earth.
In December, the Canadian Journalism Foundation launched the Edward Burtynsky Award for Climate Photojournalism. The competition is open to Canadian professionals employed by, or freelancing for, domestic news outlets. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 20, 2023, with a $5,000 prize for the winner.
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Read MoreQueen’s University Arts and Science
Opening event unveils the possibility of what Standing Whale could bring to Queen’s University
Standing Whale might just be a concept, the vision of Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky, but the excitement was palpable at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre last week.
Based on the story of a pod of North Atlantic Blue Whales that perished in an ice event off the coast of Newfoundland in 2014, Standing Whale is a thematic continuation of Burtynsky’s 40-year artistic practice looking at the impacts of humans on the planet. Intended to be a true-to-size, 75-foot artistic re-imagining inspired by the retrieved skeletons that washed ashore in 2014, Standing Whale is an acknowledgement to the power of telling our human stories, only this time as a three-dimensional sculpture rather than a two-dimensional image.
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Read MoreBy Cristina Nadotti
La Repubblica
L'immagine è divisa a metà: a sinistra gli alberi ripresi dall'alto sono di un verde brillante, sano, le chiome compatte, mentre a destra i colori sono spenti e le chiome rade, malate, distrutte dalla Xylella fastidiosa. È una delle fotografie più suggestive della mostra "Edward Burtynsky: Xylella Studies", dal 25 novembre al 9 aprile alla Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali a Polignano a Mare (Bari). Il fotografo canadese ha documentato il disastro ecologico che ha colpito gli ulivi in Puglia con un progetto avviato con la Fondazione Sylva, ente no-profit che si occupa di rigenerazione ambientale attraverso attività di riforestazione.
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Read MoreTorna il Festival delle Scienze di Roma, finalmente in presenza. E noi lo seguiremo in diretta dal foyer dell'Auditorium Parco della Musica. Il tema di quest'anno, che segna la XVII edizione, è "esplorare": dalla crisi climatica all'osservazione delle galassie, dalla struttura della materia alla sperimentazione medica, dal mondo microscopico all'intelligenza artificiale, ai nostri microfoni i racconti di coloro che esplorano la natura. E permettono a tutti noi di viaggiare insieme a loro. Con Arianna Di Genova, giornalista e autrice di "L'amica delle giraffe" (Editoriale Scienza, 2022); Sara Segantin, attivista e cofondatrice di Fridays For Future Italia; Licia Troisi, astrofisica e scrittrice fantasy; Edward Burtynsky, fotografo, autore delle foto esposte nella mostra "Xylella fastidiosa. Puglia, gli ulivi perduti"; Michele Bellone, direttore scientifico del Festival delle Scienze di Roma. Al microfono Marco Motta.
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By Jessica Barressi
Il fotografo canadese Edward Burtynsky, ha documentato il disastro ecologico dell’epidemia di Xylella che ha distrutto milioni di ulivi in Puglia a partire dal 2013, anno della prima segnalazione di presenza del batterio in Europa. La Xylella fastidiosa è un patogeno batterico delle piante trasmesso da insetti vettori e associato a malattie gravi, la cui azione devastatrice – rilevata anche in Francia, Spagna, Portogallo e Germania – colpisce soprattutto le piante secolari delle cultivar (varietà) più diffuse in Puglia: Cellina di Nardò e Ogliarola salentina.
La Fondazione Sylva, ente no-profit nato nel 2021 per occuparsi di rigenerazione ambientale attraverso attività di riforestazione, ha ospitato in residenza Edward Burtynsky proprio lo scorso anno, affidandogli il compito di tradurre in immagini e video la distruzione del patrimonio arboreo millenario e del paesaggio pugliese causata dal batterio della Xylella.
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Read MoreNational Geographic Italia
By Carlo Andriani
In collaborazione con Fondazione Sylva, il fotografo Edward Burtynsky presenta al Festival delle Scienze di Roma la mostra dedicata alla distruzione del patrimonio arboreo millenario causata dal batterio “Xylella fastidiosa".
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By Giula Giaume
Un grande fotografo internazionale torna in Italia dopo tanti anni, e con un progetto che ci riguarda molto da vicino. Parliamo del paesaggista canadese Edward Burtynsky (St. Catharines, 1955), noto per i suoi scatti industriali e in particolare per la celebre collezione Antropocene, che raggiunge due musei italiani con l’esibizione Xylella Fastidiosa. Puglia: The Lost Olive Groves. Photographs by Edward Burtynsky. Questa è una documentazione del disastro ecologico che ha colpito gli ulivi in Puglia, frutto di un lungo lavoro avviato con l’ente non-profit Fondazione Sylva che si occupa di rigenerazione ambientale. Due le tappe della personale: l’Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma, dove si terrà dal 21 al 27 novembre nell’ambito del Festival delle Scienze, e la Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali a Polignano a Mare, in Puglia, che ospiterà scatti e video dal 25 novembre al 9 aprile 2023.
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Read MoreBy Karena Walter
St. Catharines Standard
World renowned photographer and St. Catharines native Edward Burtynsky wants to transform a 180,000-pound metal forge at the former General Motors plant on Ontario Street into a major public artwork for the city.
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Read MoreBy Gege Li
New Scientist
These arresting images of industrial developments in Senegal, South Africa and Namibia were taken by Edward Burtynsky, who spent four years capturing African landscapes using aerial photography.
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Read MoreDaniel 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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Read MoreBy 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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Read MoreBy 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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Read MoreBy Sarah Ward
Concrete Playground
When January rolls around, Sydney Festival fills the city with a massive array of arts and culture events, and kickstarts each new year in style in the process. But sometimes there's something on the fest's bill that's just too exciting to hold back until its next season — and filling the Oxford Street Precinct with nine-metre screens showcasing stunning aerial industrial landscape images from a renowned photographer is one such event.
Those photos hail from acclaimed Canadian Edward Burtynsky and, from Thursday, August 25–Sunday, September 18, they'll be on display in Sydney's Taylor Square. Sydney Festival is setting up three screens as part of an installation called In the Wake of Progress, a free immersive multimedia piece which'll span 40 years of Burtynsky's work.
Read MoreBy 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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Read MoreAustralian 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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