Mines #22, Kennecott Copper Mine, Bingham Valley, Utah
Toronto, ON — colour photograph / photographie en couleur — 1983
Ed Burtynsky famously captures the staggering scale of savagery that we are capable of inflicting on the natural world in the name of consumption. As Burtynsky has said, “What this civilization leaves in the wake of its progress may be the opened and emptied earth, but in performing these incursions we also participate in the unwitting creation of gigantic monuments to our way of life.”
Edward Burtynsky, OC is a landscape photographer and lecturer whose works are housed in more than 60 museums around the world. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, and lives in Toronto.
Ed Burtynsky saisit l’ampleur effarante de la sauvagerie que nous sommes capables d’infliger au monde naturel au nom de la consommation. Comme l’a dit Burtynsky, « Ce que cette civilisation laisse dans le sillage de son progrès est peut-être une terre ouverte et vidée, mais, en réalisant ces incursions, nous participons aussi à la création involontaire de monuments gigantesques à notre mode de vie ».