EDWARD BURTYNSKY @ Howard Greenberg Gallery

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EDWARD BURTYNSKY @ Howard Greenberg Gallery

January 28th, 2023 by fstop

Sulfur Springs #1, Dallol, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, 2018. © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery and Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York

EDWARD BURTYNSKY: AFRICAN STUDIES
March 4 – April 22, 2023

Opening reception Saturday, March 4, 3 – 5 p.m.

“Since the early 1980s, Edward Burtynsky has been photographing industrial landscapes across the globe, documenting in remarkable detail the human imprint on the planet through terraforming, extraction, urbanization and deforestation. For this project, he focused on Sub-Saharan Africa, traveling to Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar and Tanzania between 2015 and 2020.

Burtynsky’s interest in Africa was sparked 20 years ago while he was working on his landmark 2004 photographic project China, which explores the country’s rapid globalization and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. The series, and subsequent award-winning documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal, Manufactured Landscapes (2006), chronicle China’s transformation into the world’s leading manufacturer and depository for its waste. Burtynsky witnessed firsthand the immense environmental—and by extension, human—cost of development, and he predicted Africa would be the next, and perhaps the last, region to undergo major industrial expansion.”

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY

Location: New York, New York City Type: Exhibition

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