Edward BurtynskyThis mid-career retrospective brings together approximately 60 compelling photographs. Burtynsky's large-format camera images, scaled to impressive colour prints, reflect upon the unorthodox beauty of manmade environments - quarries, mines, tailing ponds, refineries, recycling plants, and dismantled oil tankers on the beaches of Chittagong, Bangladesh. This was sent to me by a friend at work. It's the photographic works of Edward Burtynsky -- who takes large scale pictures of human-made environments -- often beautiful -- but sad on reflection. Some of the images are really shocking. He's currently showing his works at the AGO -- on until April 4th, in case anyone is so inspired to go see it. As well, the AGO has the Picturing the Land exhibit, as a compliment to Edward Burtynsky's -- the exhibit focuses on landscapes as seen through the eyes of photographers present and past.

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