Edward burtynsky

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment,...

The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine billion members - manage to survive the next century on a...

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.

Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow...

Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.

Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying...

I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.