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Edward Burtynsky 🇺🇦🇨🇦
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40+ years dedicated to bearing witness to the impact of humans on the planet through lens-based art. www.edwardburtynsky.com
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Installation is under way today at the Grand Palais in Booth E25 for Flowers Gallery's solo presentation of new works by Edward Burtynsky.

Paris Photo opens to the public Thursday, November 13 through Sunday, November 16.

More info: www.flowersgallery.com/art-fairs/12...
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I'm a huge Burtynsky fan. His work has taught me so much about photography but, more importantly, about this world that we all share! @edwardburtynsky.bsky.social
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Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
Wheels Up
What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia
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November 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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REMINDER: Edward Burtynsky's major solo exhibition, Shifting Topography, is now on view at the Perili Köşk in Istanbul, presented by Borusan Contemporary.

🗓: September 20, 2025 - August 16, 2026

www.borusancontemporary.com/en/edward-bu...

Installation images © Hadiye Cangökçe
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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“As technology evolves, the core responsibility remains the same: to bear witness, question and illuminate.”

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In Edward Burtynsky and Alkan Avcıoğlu’s ‘Hypertopographics,’ Photography Meets A.I.
Their collaboration at the intersection of technique and technology marks a significant moment in contemporary art history.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The Independent Climate 100 List 2025 in full www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
September 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"At the heart of it, humans are storytellers and we love to be told stories. We’re the transmitters and the receivers of stories and the world. The magic of photography is that we can compress the three dimensional world into images, it’s quite miraculous."

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Photography at the edge of catastrophe
Collectible but Not Consumeristic
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September 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Edward Burtynsky and CONTACT Gallery are pleased to present the international premiere of Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk’s White Series: Meditations on War.

🗓: Oct. 15 - Dec. 19, 2025

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White Series: Meditations on War - CONTACT Photography Festival
Edward Burtynsky, is pleased to to present new work by world-renowned Canadian Ukrainian photographer.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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"The photos are the work of a supreme technician, el máximo..."

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Steidl : Edward Burtynsky : The Great Acceleration - The Eye of Photography Magazine
Le livre The Great Acceleration d'Edward Burtynsky publié par Steidl accompagne l'exposition éponyme à l'International Center of Photography de New York
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September 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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"...photography’s enduring responsibility is “to bear witness, to question, and to illuminate.”

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Edward Burtynsky and Alkan Avcioglu merge AI and photography in 'Hypertopographics' - Türkiye Today
Edward Burtynsky tells Türkiye Today how AI and Turkish artist Alkan Avcioglu are shaping Hypertopographics, reimagining photography’s future
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September 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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"Throughout the history of photography, there have been practitioners whose images, though journalistic in nature, bear the unmistakable imprint of personal vision—think W. Eugene Smith or Sebastião Salgado. Burtynsky belongs in that pantheon."

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Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration | The Brooklyn Rail
The Great Acceleration, Edward Burtynsky’s solo exhibition currently on view at ICP, draws together over eighty photographs made over more than forty years. On the museum’s second floor, an array of u...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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"In Burtynsky's work, the viewer is confronted with a tension: the striking beauty of a changing world and the invisible cost of this metamorphosis, with the frankness of documentary and the delicacy of poetry."

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The Beauty and Price of the World According to Edward Burtynsky — Blind Magazine
In New York, two exhibitions by the Canadian photographer reveal the planet's transformation under human pressure.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Opening TOMORROW in New York at Howard Greenberg Gallery — 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘯𝘴𝘬𝘺: 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴.

The exhibition charts what Burtynsky describes as “a continuum—from pristine ecosystems to the engineered terrains shaped by human need.”

More info: www.howardgreenberg.com/exhibitions/...
August 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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"... the show is a visual experience of great impact and at the same time asks us to look behind that apparent beauty."

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Dietro l’apparente bellezza degli scatti di Burtynsky - Il Giornale dell'Arte
Dietro l’apparente bellezza degli scatti di Burtynsky
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August 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Opening this September at Borusan Contemporary — 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘯𝘴𝘬𝘺: 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺.

Exhibition details here: www.borusancontemporary.com/en/edward-bu...
July 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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À la galerie Nicholas Metivier de Toronto, @edwardburtynsky.bsky.social expose ses nouvelles photos prises en R.D.C et en Amérique du Nord - bit.ly/3UwWSgB
Edward Burtynsky expose à la galerie Nicholas Metivier
Le photographe canadien montre de nouvelles pièces à la galerie Nicholas Metivier de Toronto. Cinq photos ont été prises en République démocratique du Congo.
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July 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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"Edward Burtynsky is to photography what Drake is to music in Toronto" ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217... @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social

Edward Burtynsky: Unearthed is on view through August 23 at Nicholas Metivier Gallery.
Edward Burtynsky expose à la galerie Nicholas Metivier
Le photographe canadien montre de nouvelles pièces à la galerie Nicholas Metivier de Toronto. Cinq photos ont été prises en République démocratique du Congo.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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“[Burtynsky is a] a poet of scale, making use of ever-better lenses and innovations such as drones to gain an ever more encompassing perspective.” www.newyorker.com/culture/phot... @newyorker.com @billmckibben.bsky.social
Earth’s Poet of Scale
Edward Burtynsky’s monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet.
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July 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🎙️“...I'm just reconnecting a reality that we still live in a material world, and our cities are built of molecules that came from somewhere, and I’m taking you to those places that are vast and huge.” @bhphoto.com

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The Great Acceleration: Human-Altered Industrial Landscapes, with Edward Burtynsky
A chat with world renowned industrial landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky about his legendary industrial landscape imagery, as well as his business Toronto Image Works, which he started in 1985 to...
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July 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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“This is a factory built by humans but run by robots,” Burtynsky said of the facility, which is owned by top Chinese automaker BYD, on a Zoom call. “I think it’s a foreshadowing of where our future is.”

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Photographer finds surreal beauty — and few humans — inside a Chinese EV factory | CNN
Granted rare access to a BYD plant near Shanghai, celebrated photographer Edward Burtynsky documented how automation is transforming China, labor and the world’s supply chains.
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July 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Ottawa’s National Holocaust Monument Named One of the World’s Most Beautiful Buildings

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June 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"If his photographs of environmental destruction are gorgeous, Burtynsky defends them on the ground that this pleasingness evokes the curiosity and engagement that leads to potentially fruitful dialogue."

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Edward Burtynsky: ‘My photographs are like Rorschach tests’
The photographer’s images of environmental degradation are both stunning and haunting, and make up a captivating new survey
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June 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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"That tension between aesthetic allure and ecological consequence is central to my work. It’s where I think photography can hold that kind of complexity."

www.flaunt.com/post/edward-... #TheGreatAcceleration @ the International Center of Photography in NYC, on through Sept. 28
Edward Burtynsky | New Exhibition 'The Great Acceleration'
Now on display at the International Center of Photography until September 28
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June 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The first solo Burtynsky, NYC institutional exhibition show in over 20 years, and is more or less—an ode to his life’s work.

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Humans have irreversibly changed the planet. These photos prove it
Edward Burtnysky has documented human impact on the environment for decades. A new show examines just how much damage we've done.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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"The ICP retrospective is the centrepiece of a bonafide Burtynsky bonanza in New York this summer." @theartnewspaper.bsky.social

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/19/e... #TheGreatAcceleration
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs convey the force of mankind’s reordering of the environment
A retrospective at the International Center of Photography in New York chronicles more than 40 years of the artist’s work
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June 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Timed to coincide with Climate Week-- a famed photographer's capture of landscapes now with their BEFORE--For details on this ICP exhibit click the picture for the preview in Picture This Post magazine--

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International Center of Photography Presents Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration - Preview
WHEN: June 19–September 28, 2025 WHERE: International Center of Photography 84 Ludlow Street New York, NY 10002 TICKETS: $18+ For more
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June 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM