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14 quotes by Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky, OC (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. His work is housed in more than 50 museums including the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
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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.... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

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Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

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I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.

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The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine... →

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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.

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Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.

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I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to... →

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Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use... →

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Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to... →

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I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

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