Burtynsky’s work on Anthropocene holds a neutral take on the situation of climate change and global warming. While it displays the absolute destruction of the natural world around us, the lighting and use of various tones leaves the viewer with a sense of indifference that leaves it to them to interpret how they receive the photograph.

Burtynsky often uses repetition with the patterns in his photographs, maintaining a similar texture that is only broken once or twice, typically by something else man-made, like vehicles, or a person. The angles he takes his photos from creates different shapes out of the landscape, but doesn’t follow anything uniform or geometrically.