In Edward Burtynsky’s recent photographs, produced across the African continent, the patterns and scars of human-altered landscapes initially appear to form an abstract painterly language; they reference the sublime and often surreal qualities of human mark-making. While chronicling the major themes of terraforming and extraction, urbanization and deforestation, African Studies conveys the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion on both a human and industr... >Voir plus
Edward Burtynsky, photographe et lauréat du Conseil des arts – film de Simon Brothers. Gagnant 2016, Prix du Gouverneur général en arts visuels et en arts médiatiques.