Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynky was born in St. Catherine's, Ontario in 1955. In college he studied photography and graphic design. Now Burtynsky's work is in over 55 museums world wide and he has several books. Burtynsky is famous for shooting images of land scape's and junk yards and things like that.

I like this image because it is so detailed. Their is so much to look at with all of the paintings and designs. I love how red this image is but the painting at the top brings in a lot of other colors too. I wonder where this theater is, could it be the Paris Opera house?


This Image if very different from the last one and I like it better. I wonder how tall that pile of tires on the right is. I like how all of the tires are different yet the same and how some areas are really densely tired while you can see the ground in others.

This Image is different from the first two in that It is not man made. The river looks like lava but now that I think of it the river could be extremely polluted. That would fit in with Burtynskys theme of destroyed environments better.

What are all of these string things? some of them look like wires but what are the others. This images also fits into the similar but different category of the tires.

This is my favorite image by Burtynsky. The light is amazing and those boats look huge. I love how in the back ground you can see other boat because it shows that this isn't necessarily a rarity. I also like the pools of water in the mud an the reflection of the boat. I wonder if the ocean still goes high enough to reach the boat because if it does than that would also be a cool picture.