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Edward Burtynsky

My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the piano of a famous Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko, playing an instrument known as a bandura. I remember that one kind of resonated with me; it was always central in the living room.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

If you look at photojournalism, it’s largely driven by current events… always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that is much looser than current events.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

We have extracted from the land from the moment we stood on two feet. We are working to supply the kinds of materials that are necessary for the lives we’ve built for ourselves.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that was dependent on the automobile.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

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Edward Burtynsky

I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

I love the tones of browns and grays – I love more neutral tones. That’s why I like going to the desert and working in the desert. I find that green trees and things like that have a tendency to lock us into a certain way of seeing.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

In film, you can create the illusion of time and space. People speak; characters reveal their feelings. You can use music, which informs how you should be feeling, and it carries you to the right emotional space.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there’s always a winner and a loser. Whoever is the one it’s directed towards is the winner, and whoever loses that water is the loser.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

In our ephemeral information age, people think we’ve left behind the stone, bronze, and iron ages. But they’re all still going on – we use tonnes of this stuff every day. You just have to look.

– Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky

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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