“Most people would walk by a dump pile and assume that theres no picture there,” says global industrial landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky. “But there’s always a picture, you just have to travel in there and find it.” Born in Canada in 1955, or Burtynsky has been investigating human-altered landscapes in his artistic practice for over 35 years,capturing the sweeping views of nature altered by industry; from stone, to minerals, or oil,transportation, and silicon. “Of course, or it’s important to me to make certain that my pictures are appealing to the eye,” he says. “But beneath the surface there’s always a bigger, deeper environmental issue.”
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