Burtynsky was born in 1955 of Ukrainian heritage in St. Catharines,Ontario. He received his BAA in Photography/ Media Studies from Ryerson University in 1982, and in 1985 founded Toronto Image Works, a darkroom rental facility, custom photo laboratory, digital imaging and new media computer-training centre catering to all levels of Toronto’s art community.

Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada’s most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over sixty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Tate Modern in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.

Image analysis

Image Analysis 

I chose this image of Edwards as visually the image is stimulating and the composition of the image is very interesting as the image has been broken into three different sections, the sky, the yellow flowers and the big mounties.In the image the two main colours are yellow and the black are two very contrasting colour which in this example are very complementary to each other. The concept of this image could have been taken with the idea to show how much humans can alter the scene of the natural world, when humans are talked about changing nature it is looked upon in a negative way, this image could have been taken to show that it can be changed in a way that is beautiful.This image was taken in Canola Fields, Luoping, Yunnan Province, China.