Edward Burtnysky on climate crisis: 'We should be screaming fire… but we're rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic'
Landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky's work explores human impact on the surface of the planet, shooting the Coast mountains in the Canadian province of British Columbia, soil erosion in Turkey, and coal mines in Australia for his latest exhibition, New Works...
The necessity to earn enough money to allow him to study photography led him to find work in big industry, working in both the auto and mining industries as a young man...
Progressing from standing on the edges of perilous quarries and mines to get his shots (admitting, "my mother didn't approve, it was sort of dangerous"), he now uses helicopters to get his aerial images.
Helicopters eh? I hope no misguided person throws soup at his travel photos.
9 comments:
Solar-powered helicopters, natch.
Battery powered, of course.
dearieme and Sam - although in both cases the helicopters would be considerably more interesting than his photos.
I didn't know that there were even more people jumping on the 'climate' bandwagon while there's still a few quid in the scam! Surely those who made their millions have left the scene by now?
Scrobs - my impression is that it's creaking but lots of money still to be made, although being in a position to get out quickly seems like a good idea.
The climate change industry seems to attract a high volume of hypocrites
Bucko - yes, pretending to be above it all it seems to be one of the membership conditions.
It is as if cheap BATTERY powered simple high definition photo drones had never been invented. Never mind how you take quality photographs through curved glazing on a vibrating helicopter.
He paid somebody to teach him how to take photies. So there was a bigger con-artist than him.
Doonhamer - I wondered about drones too. I assume he wanted to do it in a way ordinary people can't so it didn't seem too easy.
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