Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Edward Burtynsky
Following the ‘cosmic’ strand from earlier posts I recently found the website for one of my favourite photographers – Edward Burtynsky. He takes large format images which are generally beautifully crafted and crisply detailed. His work often looks at how we have ‘transformed’ nature and its resultant consequences. He ends up in quarries, oil fields, the three gorges dam, factories, urban environments, recycling dumps, ship wrecking yards…
