Edward Burtynsky

World-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, and acclaimed filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier have been collaborating for nearly 15 years, starting with the award-winning documentaries Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013). Their new project Anthropocene includes a documentary film (ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch) which is now playing in select Canadian theatres, two complementary museum exhibitions now on at the Art Gallery of Ontario and National Gallery of Canada, and an art book published by Steidl.

bundles of lumber on a lake

Cover Story / Environment / November 2018

People vs the Planet

October 15, 2018April 22, 2020 - by Edward Burtynsky

In the Anthropocene, the argument that deforestation’s economic benefits overrule its environmental impact no longer holds weight

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Photograph by Edward Burtynsky

October 2013 / Photography

Water

December 18, 2013July 31, 2015 - by Edward Burtynsky

Our unquenchable thirst for the earth’s defining resource

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Video still of Edward Burtynsky from The Walrus Talks The Art of the City

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The Art of the Image

January 24, 2012November 19, 2019 - by Edward Burtynsky

“Cities do tell us what it is that this society finds important”

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Photograph by Edward Burtynsky

Environment / July/August 2007

Extraction

July 12, 2007July 17, 2019 - by Edward Burtynsky

Canada started as a rough-and-tumble company, but is the march of progress now killing the country?

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