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All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.
As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.
Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
Good governance takes behavior that is negative or not helpful to the greater good of society, whether it's polluting behaviour, plastics, or whatever, and taxes the behaviour.
Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.
I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.
I have always been interested in following the technology that I feel are presenting themselves as true industry and innovation.
I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film and paper to everything on a chip. Photography 3.0 is the use of the camera, space, and color and to capture an object in the third dimension.
I love the tones of browns and grays - I love more neutral tones. That's why I like going to the desert and working in the desert. I find that green trees and things like that have a tendency to lock us into a certain way of seeing.
I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.
I remember the first roll of film I took. It was wintertime, and I wanted to shoot a roll of film to practice processing it, so I took an entire 36-exposure roll of my dog, Tippy.
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.
I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.
I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.
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Edward Burtynsky
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22 February, 1955
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