Manufactured Landscapes
Edward Burtynsky uses a large-format camera to capture ironically beautiful images of massive industrial incursions on Nature – powerful dams, gigantic factories, massive quarries, far-flung strip-mines, and sprawling cities. One may look at his photographs and revel in their beauty and weep at their meaning as the dismantling of planet Earth accelerates at a pace unparalleled in history. Canadian documentarian Jennifer Baichwal traveled to China and Bangladesh to film Burtynsky searching for damning evidence of rapid change, growth, and destruction. Baichwal’s movie camera complements Burtynsky’s still photographs by moving about and taking us into, over, and around the very locations that mark such massive change.
Video, ecology 
