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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.

~Edward Burtynsky

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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 buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.

~Edward Burtynsky

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

~Edward Burtynsky

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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. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

~Edward Burtynsky

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Photographer

Born: February 22nd, 1955

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