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top image Edward Burtynsky is one of Canada’s preeminent and internationally acclaimed photographers. Since the late 1970s, he has crossed the globe to produce remarkable photographic depictions of our contemporary industrial economy. His powerful images, rich in detail and scale, remind us of the complex relationship between humans and nature. He depicts landscapes demonstrably impacted by industries like mining, quarrying, recycling, oil refining and shipbreaking, showing the extraordinary impact contemporary societies have wrought. Burtynsky’s most recent work examines the rapidly emerging economy of China. Currently occupying a central and integral role in the world’s global supply chain for multinational corporations, urban China has experienced an immense population and value migration from rural to urban, encouraged by hollow promises of fulfillment and happiness through material gain of industrialization. Using diplomatic channels, Burtynsky gained elite access to industrial, manufacturing, recycling, and urban sites throughout the country. He focused on by-products of newly established zones of industrialization, producing a body of riveting colour photographs that provide rare and privileged glimpses of the social and economic transformation underway in China. In 2004 Burtynsky was the recipient of the Roloff Beny Book Award for “Before the Flood”, as well as the prestigious TED Prize. His works are included in the collections of 15 major museums worldwide including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art as well as the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.
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