NATURAL ORDER: Edward Burtynsky & Marta Braun In Conversation

Sep 23, 2020

September 15, 2020: Edward Burtynsky was joined by Marta Braun, F+PPCM Program Director at Ryerson University School of Image Arts, at the Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto, ON to discuss Burtynsky's latest body of work Natural Order, and his art historical inspirations.

Edward Burtynsky's In the Wake of Progress | Luminato Festival 2021 | Trailer (1 min)

Discussion of the scale of our waste stream, the landscape of oil, the energy envelope, and the issue of sustainability by photographer Burtynsky.

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of "manufactured landscapes"—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.