I remember the first roll of film I took. It was wintertime, and I wanted to shoot a roll of film to practice processing it, so I took an entire 36-exposure roll of my dog, Tippy. Edward Burtynsky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I look at green trees on a sunny day, I don’t know how to make an interesting picture of that. Edward Burtynsky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation. Edward Burtynsky Read Quote
All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape. Edward Burtynsky Read Quote
One thing that’s consistent in all of my work is that these aren’t accidents; they’re all conscious landscapes. They’re all things that we’re doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism. Edward Burtynsky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
