Edward Burtynsky

Birth : 1955-02-22, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edward Burtynsky OC is a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. His work is housed in more than fifteen major museums including the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Burtynsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Profile

Movies

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Executive Producer

Documentary on psychedelic potash mines, expansive concrete seawalls, mammoth industrial machines, and other examples of humanity’s massive, destructive reengineering of the planet.

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Director

Documentary on psychedelic potash mines, expansive concrete seawalls, mammoth industrial machines, and other examples of humanity’s massive, destructive reengineering of the planet.

Watermark

Executive Producer

Following their triumph with Manufactured Landscapes, photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal reunite to explore the ways in which humanity has shaped, manipulated and depleted one of its most vital and compromised resources: water.

Watermark

Director

Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands

Director of Photography

The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.

Manufactured Landscapes

Himself

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.