Long Term Project

For my long term project i'm going to create a panel project using nature as my subject

Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict. He has made several excursions to China to photograph that country's industrial emergence, and construction of one of the world's largest engineering projects, the Three Gorges Dam.

His early influences include Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eadward Muybridge, and Carleton Watkins, whose prints he saw at the Metropolitain Museum of Art in the early 1980s. Another group whose body of work shares similar themes and photographic approaches to Burtynsky's work are The New Topographers.

Porthole Project