EDWARD BURTYNSKY IS A CANADIAN PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAS DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO DOCUMENTING HUMANITY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH PLANET EARTH. HE IS THE RECIPIENT OF THE TED PRIZE AND THE OUTREACH AWARD FROM LES RENCONTRES D’ARLES, AND IS THE VISUAL AUTHOR OF WATER (2013), OIL (2009), QUARRIES (2007), CHINA (2005), LANDSCAPES (2003), AND THE RECENTLY RELEASED ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FROM WHICH THESE IMAGES AND TEXT ARE DRAWN. IMAGES: © EDWARD BURTYNSKY, COURTESY METIVIER GALLERY, TORONTO; HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY, NEW YORK; AND BRYCE WOLKOWITZ GALLERY, NEW YORK.
The isolating aspect of the frame and the choices one makes in optics, film and film format, printing medium, time of day, time of year, quality of light, as well as point of view and surface quality of the subject, not to mention the subject itself, all…
