I wanted to trace the evidence of global thirst and threatened sources. - Russell Lord - Curator of Photographs - NOMA, When BP’s Deepwater Horizon well began pouring millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in May 2010, Edward Burtynsky traveled to the site to capture the event. Edward Burtynsky finds an amazing amount of beauty in the industrial landscape, If the viewer isn't moved by his images, then there's something wrong. In the province of Guangdong, one can drive for hours along numerous highways that reveal a virtually unbroken landscape of factories and workers’ dormitories. According to the Chinese Commission for Science, Technology and and National Defense, by 2015 China is expected to become the world’s largest shipbuilder, with annual output reaching 24 million deadweight tons, or 35 per cent of the world’s total. Track, Thompson River, British Columbia 1985, Railcuts #5C.N. Fertile agricultural lands and important cultural/historic sites will be found submerged under a vast reservoir. Though characteristically spectacular and expressly an evolution of the photographer’s more recent aerial shooting method, the images present something of a departure for Burtynsky, who has said of his work “I understand that it has an editorial aspect to it, but nothing I photograph is typically a news event. I looked upon the shipbreaking as the ultimate in recycling, in this case of the largest vessels ever made. “…. Otter Juan/Coronet mine #1, 2007, Edward Burtynsky, Kalgoorlie. Burtynsky’s large scale aerial photographs reference the sublime and often surreal qualities of human-altered landscapes with an abstracted painterly language. I find myself gazing into an infinity of apparent chaos, but through that selective contemplation, an order emerges — an enduring order that remains intact regardless of our own human fate. These new ‘manufacturing landscapes’ in the southern and eastern parts of China produce more and more of the world’s goods and have become the habitat for a diverse group of companies and millions of busy workers. Shortly after Edward Burtynsky made this photograph, lightning struck the tire dump, creating a fire that burned for thirty days. "— Edward Burtynsky, “While trying to accommodate the growing needs of an expanding, and very thirsty civilization, we are reshaping the Earth in colossal ways. Water is intermittently introduced as a victim, a partner, a protagonist, a lure, a source, an end, a threat and a pleasure. For the artist, it suggested inverted architecture: an idea about quarries that he had long dreamed of, but in the eyes of the quarryman it was an evolutionary history of extraction technology. “The concept of the landscape as architecture has become, for me, an act of imagination. In his powerful series on water, Edward Burtynsky explores how humans source, use, distribute and waste this precious resource, often taking its availability for granted. The shipyard industry that has long disappeared from the Western World is thriving in China and part of the large manufacturing machine that this country has become. Burtynsky's new and highly anticipated book Water tells us the story of where water comes from, how we use it, distribute and waste it. The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is a master of the post-industrial sublime. Burtynsky typically searches out the largest scale examples of global ecological incidents. State-owned enterprises are rapidly being demolished and rebuilt at industrial parks outside the city, along with many other new factories. They combine a kind of mapping with a keenly felt experience of all the hard rock grit, dust and labour transforming these arid lands. The car that I drove cross-country began to represent not only freedom, but also something much more conflicted. From the frigid sleep of winter to the fecund urgency of spring, these images are an affirmation of the complexity, wonder and resilience of the natural order in all things. The St. Catharines, Ont.-born photographer has spent decades taking bird's-eye-view shots of tailings ponds, sawmills, potash mines, and garbage dumps. Inexpensive labor from the countryside, important as it is to China’s growth as a trading nation, is one major facet of its success. When Burtynsky was photographing the region’s largest quarry, an enormous block being hoisted by cable slipped free and crashed down the bedding slope, firing rock chips at the photographer and his crew. With over 12,000 workers using 500,000 tons of steel, Qili port shipyards build 232 to 250 ships per year. A worker here must be fearless. Edward Burtynsky got to Barre for the first time in 1991 as a result of a photographic quest for quarries in Northern Ontario. The result is this new series, made during the time of year when the cycle of renewal exerts itself on the Earth. Landscapes where water is scarce or forever compromised such as the Salton Sea, the Colorado River Delta, that has not seen a drop of water from that river in over forty years, and is now a desert; or Owens Lake, that saw its water diverted to Los Angeles in 1913 and is now a dry, toxic lakebed. Just as important is a rising industrial production capability. The raw material and the refining process contained both the idea and an interesting visual component for me.". Burtynsky instead focusses on the visual and physical effects of the lack of water, giving its absence an even more powerful presence." For Burtynsky, these Portuguese quarries represented the culmination and conclusion of a fifteen-year search for his dream image of an architecture turned inside out and upside down. Their vigorous assault on the land reminds us of our own experience in the West more than a century before. The waste is brought to China via ship, just as much as the new products are being distributed over the world through ships. Edward Burtynsky: the photographer finding art in rivers of toxic waste. I’m not so much into chasing disasters as I am into looking at big industrial incursions into the landscape or in this case, the seascape.”, This Oil Spill imagery, while expressing the familiar grand scale of Burtynsky’s oeuvre, also depicts an event that is newsworthy—even as it is alchemized into art. For Burtynsky, nature itself, over time, can reclaim even the most ambitious of human incursions into the land. Not only are new cities emerging but immense urban renewal efforts are also underway. To describe Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's work in a single adjective, you have to speak French: jolie-laide. From an aerial vantage point approximately 500 - 800 feet above the ground, Burtynsky photographed this unusual landscape of multi-coloured interlocking rectangles, spanning across the delta. EDWARD BURTYNSKY (b 1955) Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian artist renowned for his sustained investigation of the “indelible human signature” on the planet, caused by incursions into the landscape on an industrial scale. From the beginning of his career, Burtynsky was attuned to the delicate balance that exists between humans and the environment. In this new and powerful role over the planet, we are also capable of engineering our own demise. Aquaculture looks as those places where land and sea is been shaped to serve the purposes of growing and harvesting water-based crops such as salt, fish, shrimp, seaweed and rice. Track, Thompson River, British Columbia 1985. Edward Burtynsky, J. Henry Fair, and David Maisel are not the only photographers working in this genre, but they are three of the more prominent. Open-pit mines, funneling down, were to me like inverted pyramids. The title Railcuts evokes a sense of direct physical contact with the land. At least half a dozen workers die in the quarries every month and there have been more than 500 serious accidents in the past half decade. Fertile agricultural lands and important cultural/historic sites will be found submerged under a vast reservoir. In China, e-waste recycling is, for the most part, not yet a refined industry. We've never stopped taking things from nature. Near Kamloops, British Columbia 1985, Homesteads #37Cottage North of Princeton. The quarries of southeastern Portugal are often extremely deep. About four years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill I heard a radio program where theywere talking about the danger of single-hulled ships. We have to learn to think more long-term about the consequences of what we are doing, while we are doing it. This selection is drawn from a multiyear donation of works by celebrated Canadian photographer (and Ryerson University alumnus) Edward Burtynsky, whose iconic images have brought global attention to the impacts of human industry on the natural landscape. Burtynsky, who was born in St. Catherines, Ontario, investigated one of his first ‘e-waste’ who-done-its in his own backyard. Juxtaposing pulsating orange against a glossy black background, he extracts spectacular images from a landscape that many might consider unphotogenic. Like many of us, Burtynsky went to Carrara dreaming of Michelangelo. mass consumerism… and the resulting degradation of our environment intrinsic to the process of making things to keep us happy and fulfilled frightens me. Once the scrap arrives at its destination, workers use their hands and primitive tools to pick apart the junked computers and salvage precious components. Almost all of Bao Steel’s iron ore is imported, being sourced in Australia, Brazil, South Africa and India. Emphasizing these pictorial concerns within the landscape tradition was for him another way to contribute to the field and to assert the relevance of painting to his photographic practice. Our achievements became a source of infinite possibilities. I document landscapes that, whether you think of them as beautiful or monstrous, or as some strange combination of the two, are clearly not vistas of an inexhaustible, sustainable world. The insurance companies were refusing to cover them after 2004, which would force all these ships to be decommissioned. Current society is searching for a way to come to terms with that taking from the earth. It’s as if they’re cutting cake. In all, Edward Burtynsky made a half dozen Vermont trips to photograph what are thought to be the deepest quarries in the world. However, for many Indians the Makrana quarries are the Pits of Death. Blasted rock-face fills most of the frames in these images, and the tightly cropped views of the railway line seen head-on are strangely airless and even claustrophobic. I went in search of it, and when I had it on my ground glass, I knew that I had arrived. These yards are like secondary mines. My hope is that these pictures will stimulate a process of thinking about something essential to our survival; something we often take for granted—until it’s gone.”, "I wanted to understand water: what it is, and what it leaves behind when we're gone. Turn the image Iberia Quarries #3 upside down and there it finally is – the inverted ziggurat that he had so long imagined. Additionally, there is an enormous and poorly documented host of occupational illnesses and injuries—silicosis, deafness and loss of limbs. His quarry work was complete. “My earliest understanding of deep time and our relationship to the geological history of the planet came from my passion for being in nature. By Alistair Sooke The Telegraph. Send them a photograph of yourself and they’ll do one of you for the same price. In China, e-waste recycling is, for the most part, not yet a refined industry. This latest book by Edward Burtynsky is magnificent photographically -- as one would expect from this master -- but it is also powerful and compelling from an environmental perspective. I wanted to understand our use and misuse of it. I have come to think of my preoccupation with the Anthropocene — the indelible marks left by humankind on the geological face of our planet — as a conceptual extension of my first and most fundamental interests as a photographer. Since Deng Xiaoping began opening China’s economy to the world in 1978, economic growth in coastal provinces like Fujian has been phenomenal. Burtynsky’s new and highly anticipated book Water tells us the story of where water comes from, how we use it, distribute and waste it. Burtynsky’s images encapsulate the delicate balance between natural and human processes – the presence of salt in the earth’s composition and our need to harness it. He shows us its remote sources, the transformation of desert into water-rich cities, the compromised landscapes of the American Southwest. Edward Burtynsky The Chino Mine in Santa Rita, New Mexico, is an open-pit copper mine stretching three kilometres across and has been excavated for more than 100 years. We hope to bring our audience to an awareness of the normally unseen result of civilization’s cumulative impact upon the planet. E-waste is hazardous and its processing is a high-risk endeavor even in state-of-the-art facilities. This is what propels us to continue making the work. “…. Yet frustrated plans can yield unexpected opportunities. The shipyard industry that has long disappeared from the Western World is thriving in China and part of the large manufacturing machine that this country has become. Water is also often completely absent from the pictures. Natural Order #1Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #5Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #13Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #14Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #19Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #20Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #22Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #27Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #28Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #31 Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Natural Order #33Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020, Basque Coast #1, UNESCO Geopark, Zumaia, Spain, 2015, Basque Coast #3, UNESCO Geopark, Zumaia, Spain, 2015, Dandora Landfill #1, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016, Dandora Landfill #3, Plastics Recycling, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016, Highway #8, Santa Ana Freeway, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2017, Flood Damaged Cars, Royal Purple Raceway, Baytown, Texas, USA, 2017, Sidarth Nagar, Worli, Mumbai, India, 2016, Greenhouses #2, El Ejido, Southern Spain, 2010, Imperial Valley #4, California, USA, 2009, Imperial Valley #5, Holtville, California, USA, 2009, Salinas #5, Aquaculture, Cádiz, Spain, 2013, Clearcut #1, Palm Oil Plantation, Borneo, Malaysia, 2016, Clearcut #2, Palm Oil Plantation, Borneo, Malaysia, 2016, Saw Mills #3, Log Booms, Lagos, Nigeria, 2016, Log Booms #1, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2016, Clearcut #4, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2016, Clearcut #5, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2017, Freeman Island, Long Beach, California, USA, 2017, Petrochemical Plants, Baytown, Texas, USA, 2017, Fuels and Chemical Storage, Houston, Texas, USA, 2017, Phosphor Tailings Pond #4, Near Lakeland, Florida, USA, 2012, Phosphor Tailings #5, Near Lakeland, Florida, USA, 2012, Lithium Mines #1, Salt Flats, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2017, Carrara Marble Quarries, Carbonera Quarry #2, Carrara, Italy, 2016, Carrara Marble Quarries, Cava di Canalgrande #2, Carrara, Italy, 2016, Carrara Marble Quarries, Carbonera Quarry #1, Carrara, Italy, 2016, Coal Train, Near Gillette, Wyoming, USA, 2015, Tyrone Mine #3, Silver City, New Mexico, USA, 2012, Morenci Mine #2, Clifton, Arizona, USA, 2012, Coal Mine #1, North Rhine, Westphalia, Germany, 2015, Coal Mine #3, North Rhine, Westphalia, Germany, 2015, Oil Bunkering #1, Niger Delta, Nigeria, 2016, Oil Bunkering #4, Niger Delta, Nigeria, 2016, Oil Bunkering #7, Niger Delta, Nigeria, 2016, Oil Bunkering #8, Niger Delta, Nigeria, 2016, Uralkali Potash Mine #1, Berezniki, Russia, 2017, Uralkali Potash Mine #2, Berezniki, Russia, 2017, Uralkali Potash Mine #4, Berezniki, Russia, 2017, Uralkali Potash Mine #6, Berezniki, Russia, 2017, Cerro Dominador Solar Project #1, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2017, PS10 Solar Power Plant, Seville, Spain, 2013, Pengah Wall #1, Komodo National Park, Indonesia, 2017, Avatar Grove #3, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2017, Ivory Tusks, April 25, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016, Building Ivory Tusk Mound, April 25, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016, Salt Pan #2Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #4Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #5Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #6Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #7Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #8Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #9Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #10Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #13Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #15Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #16Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #18Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #19Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #20Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #21Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #22Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #24Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #26Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #29Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Salt Pan #30Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India, 2016, Oil Spill #1REM Forza, Gulf of Mexico, May 11, 2010, Oil Spill #2Discoverer Enterprise, Gulf of Mexico, May 11, 2010, Oil Spill #4Oil Skimming Boat, Near Ground Zero, Gulf of Mexico, June 24, 2010, Oil Spill #10Oil Slick at Rip Tide, Gulf of Mexico, June 24, 2010, Oil Spill #13Mississippi Delta, Gulf of Mexico, June 24, 2010, Oil Spill #15Submerged Pipeline, Gulf of Mexico, June 24, 2010, Alberta Oil Sands #14Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007, Salton Sea #1Eastern Shore, California, USA, 2009, Colorado River Delta #2Near San Felipe, Baja, Mexico, 2011, Colorado River Delta #8Salinas, Baja, Mexico, 2012, Phosphor Tailings Ponds #3Polk County, Florida, USA, 2012, Phosphor Tailings Pond #2Polk County, Florida, USA, 2012, Row-IrrigationImperial Valley,Southern California, USA, 2009, Stepwell #4Sagar Kund Baori, Bundi, Rajasthan, India, 2010, Polders, GrootschermerThe Netherlands, 2011, Flood Control LeveeMAASVLAKTE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011, Xiaolangdi Dam #1Yellow River, Henan Province, China, 2011, Xiaolangdi Dam #3Yellow River, Henan Province, China, 2011, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation / ScottsdaleArizona, USA, 2011, Xiluodu Dam #1Yangtze River, Yunnan Province, China, 2012, Dryland Farming #24Monegros County, Aragon, Spain, 2010, Dryland Farming #1Monegros County, Aragon, Spain, 2010, Dryland Farming #2Monegros County, Aragon, Spain, 2010, Dryland Farming #21Monegros County, Aragon, Spain, 2010, Dryland Farming #27Monegros County, Aragon, Spain, 2010, GreenhousesAlmería Peninsula, Spain, 2010, Pivot Irrigation / SuburbSouth of Yuma, Arizona, USA, 2011, Pivot Irrigation #1High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA, 2011, Pivot Irrigation #7High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA, 2011, Pivot Irrigation #4High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA, 2011, Pivot Irrigation #2High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA, 2011, Pivot Irrigation #11High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA, 2011, Rice Terraces #3abWestern Yunnan Province, China, 2012, Rice Terraces #2Western Yunnan Province, China, 2012, Marine Aquaculture #1Luoyuan Bay, Fujian Province, China, 2012, Cerro Prieto Geothermal Power StationBaja, Mexico, 2012, Colorado River Delta #9Sonora, Mexico, 2012, Cape Coral #1Lee County, Florida, USA, 2012, Georgian Bay #1Four Winds, Pointe-Au-Baril, Ontario, Canada, 2009, Georgian Bay #2Eastern Shore, Ontario, Canada, 2009, Glacier CatchmentScud River, Northern British Columbia, Canada, 2012, Mount Edziza Provincial Park #4Northern British Columbia, Canada, 2012, Mount Edziza Provincial Park #1Northern British Columbia, Canada, 2012, Dyralaekir River on MyrdalssandurIceland, 2012, Oil Fields #19abBelridge, California, USA, 2003, Oil Fields #2Belridge, California, USA, 2003, Oil Fields #27Bakersfield, California, USA, 2004, Alberta Oil Sands #10Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007, Alberta Oil Sands #9Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007, Alberta Oil Sands #2Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007, Alberta Oil Sands #6Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007, Oil Fields #22Cold Lake Alberta, Canada, 2001, Oil Tanker and RefineriesPasadena, Texas, USA, 2004, Oil Refineries #34Houston, Texas, USA, 2004, Oil Refineries #15Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1999, Oil Refineries #23Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 1999, Oil Refineries #3Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 1999, Oil Refineries #22St. Butte, Montana 1985, Super Pit #1Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2007, Super Pit #4Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2007, Silver Lake Operations #1Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007, Silver Lake Operations #2Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007, Silver Lake Operations #5Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007, Silver Lake Operations #8Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007, Silver Lake Operations #10Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007, Silver Lake Operations #12Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007, Silver Lake Operations #15Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007, Silver Lake Operations #16Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007, Tailings #1Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 2007, Rock of Ages #1Active Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont, USA, 1991, Rock of Ages #4Abandoned Section, Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont, USA, 1991, Rock of Ages #7Active Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont, USA, 1991, Rock of Ages #25Abandoned Section, Adam-Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont, USA, 1991, Rock of Ages #15Active Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont, USA, 1992, Rock of Ages #26Abandoned Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont, USA, 1991, Rock of Ages #33Abandoned Section, Rock of Ages Quarry, Vermont, USA, 1991, Rock of Ages #39Active Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont, USA, 1991, Marble Quarries #001Rultand, Vermont, 1991, Carrara Marble Quarries #3Carrara, Italy, 1993, Carrara Marble Quarries #12Carrara, Italy, 1993, Carrara Marble Quarries #15Carrara, Italy, 1993, Carrara Marble Quarries #20Carrara, Italy, 1993, Carrara Marble Quarries # 24 & 25Carrara, Italy, 1993, Makrana Marble Quarries #3Rajasthan, India, 2000, Makrana Marble Quarries #5Rajasthan, India, 2000, Makrana Marble Quarries #8Rajasthan, India, 2000, Makrana Marble Quarries #13Rajasthan, India, 2000, China Quarries #3Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, 2004, China Quarries #4Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, 2004, China Quarries #7Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, 2004, China Quarries #8Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, 2004, Iberia Quarries #2Marmorose EFA Co., Bencatel, Portugal, 2006, Iberia Quarries #3Cochicho Co., Pardais, Portugal,, 2006, Iberia Quarries #7Marbrito Co., Borba-Mouro, Portugal, 2006, Iberia Quarries #8Cochicho Co., Pardais, Portugal, 2006, Iberia Quarries #9Cochicho Co., Pardais, Portugal, 2006, Dam #2Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China, 2002, Feng Jie #3 & 4Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China, 2002, Feng Jie #6Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China, 2002, Wushan #3Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China, 2002, Wan Zhou #1Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China, 2002, Wan Zhou #2Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China, 2002, Wan Zhou #4Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China, 2002, Dam #6Three Gorges Dam Project, Yangtze River, China, 2005, Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group, Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China, 2005, Old Factories #5Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group, Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China, 2005, Old Factories #1Fushun Aluminum Smelter, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, China, 2005, Old Factories #4Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group, Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China, 2005, Old Factories #9Fushun Aluminum Smelter, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, China, 2005, China Recycling #18Cankun Aluminum, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China, 2005, China Recycling #22Portrait of A Woman In Blue, Zeguo, Zhejiang Province, China, 2004, China Recycling #12Waste Sorting, Zeguo, Zhejiang Province, China, 2004, China Recycling #9Circuit Boards, Guiyu, Guangdong Province, China, 2004, China Recycling #8Plastic Toy Parts, Guiyu, Guangdong Province, China, 2004, China Recycling #2Cutter, Fengjiang, Zhejiang Province, China 2004, Shift Change, Yuyuan Shoe Factory, Gaobu Town, Guangdong Province, China, 2004, Manufacturing #17Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, China, 2005, Manufacturing #18Cankun Factory, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, 2005, Manufacturing #10abCankun Factory, Xiamen City, China, 2005, Manufacturing #11Youngor Textiles, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005, Manufacturing #14Bird Mobile, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005, Manufacturing #16Bird Mobile, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005, Shipyard #5Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005, Shipyard #7Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China 2005, Shipyard #11Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China 2005, Shipyard #13Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China 2005, Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005, Shipyard #18Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005, Shipyard #15Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005, Shipyard #21Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China, 2005, Urban Renewal #4Old City Overview, Shanghai, China, 2004, Urban Renewal #1Factory Construction, Outside Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China 2004, Urban Renewal #11Hold Out, Shanghai, China 2004, Urban Renewal #5City Overview From Top of Military Hospital, Shanghai, China, 2004, Urban Renewal #6Apartment Complex, JiangjunAo, Hong Kong, 2004, Shipbreaking #9aChittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #9bChittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #9ab diptychChittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #11Chittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #13Chittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #17Chittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #23Chittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #27Chittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #30Chittagong, Bangladesh 2001, Shipbreaking #31Chittagong, Bangladesh 2001, Shipbreaking #38Chittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Shipbreaking #49Chittagong, Bangladesh 2001, Shipbreaking: Recycling #2Chittagong, Bangladesh 2001, Shipbreaking: Recycling #10Chittagong, Bangladesh 2000, Densified Oil Filters #1Hamilton, Ontario 1997, Densified Oil Drums #4Hamilton, Ontario 1997, Ferrous Bushling #7Hamilton, Ontario 1997, Ferrous Bushling #9Hamilton, Ontario 1997, Ferrous Bushling #17Hamilton, Ontario 1997, Ferrous Bushling #18Hamilton, Ontario 1997, Uranium Tailings #5Elliot Lake, Ontario 1995, Uranium Tailings #12Elliot Lake, Ontario 1995, Nickel Tailings #34-35(as diptych) - Sudbury, Ontario 1996, Landscape Study #1North Carolina, USA, 1979, GrassesBruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada, 1981, Homesteads #27Coleman, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta 1985, Homesteads #30West of Merritt, British Columbia 1985, Homesteads #32View from Highway 8, British Columbia 1985, Homesteads #33View from Trans Canada Highway. 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