12.02. – 18.04.2019
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
ANTHROPOCENE - NEW PHOTOGRAPHS
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
ANTHROPOCENE - NEW PHOTOGRAPHS
Coal Mine # 1. North Rhine Westphalia, 2015
»Humankind reached an unprecedented moment in planetary history. Humans now affect the Earth and its processes more than all other natural forces combined.« The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth.
Lithium Mines #2, Salt Flats, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2017
Galerie Springer Berlin is showing a high-quality selection of new photographs from the Anthropocene project.
Phosphor Tailings Pond #4, Near Lakeland, Florida, USA, 2012
The entire body of work is currently being shown simultaneously at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. The documentary film The Anthropocene: The Human Epoch by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky will soon be shown in cinemas.
Uralkali Potash Mine #3, Berezniki, Russia, 2017
Log Booms #1, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2016
The book The Anthropocene has just been published by Steidl in Göttingen.
Detailed information about the entire project is available at https://theanthropocene.org