Quotes About Edward Burtynsky

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

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.

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.