Sishen Iron Ore Mine #5, Tailings, Kathu, South Africa, 2018, pigment inkjet print on Kodak Professional Photo Paper
EDWARD BURTYNSKY AFRICA
06/10/2022 - 29/10/2022
Nicholas Metivier
190 Richmond Street East
ON M5A 1P1 Toronto
www.metiviergallery.com
Between 2015 and 2020, Burtynsky travelled to Africa to document the last continent on the precipice of massive geological transformation due to industrial expansion. With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, he completed shoots in Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar and Tanzania. With Africa, Burtynsky expands on major themes from the arc of his career including extraction, agriculture and urbanization. Using fixed-wing aircrafts, helicopters and drones alongside new camera technologies, his most recent photographs reveal the design, structure and scale of the marks we inscribe on the surface of the earth like never before.
Nicholas Metivier
190 Richmond Street East
ON M5A 1P1 Toronto
www.metiviergallery.com
Between 2015 and 2020, Burtynsky travelled to Africa to document the last continent on the precipice of massive geological transformation due to industrial expansion. With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, he completed shoots in Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar and Tanzania. With Africa, Burtynsky expands on major themes from the arc of his career including extraction, agriculture and urbanization. Using fixed-wing aircrafts, helicopters and drones alongside new camera technologies, his most recent photographs reveal the design, structure and scale of the marks we inscribe on the surface of the earth like never before.