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Burtynsky from a Blind Perspective Image Gallery
Welcome to the Burtynsky from a Blind Perspective image gallery. Click on the audio players below each image to hear an in-depth description of selected key images featured in Encountering Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress: A Film by Bokeh Collective.
Audio descriptions recorded by J.J. Hunt.
Click below to listen to a brief introduction to Edward Burtynsky.
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Cathedral Grove #2, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2017
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Clearcut #5, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2017
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Railcuts #1, C.N. Track, Skihist Provincial Park, British Columbia, 1985
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Pivot Irrigation #1, High Plains, Texas Panhandle, USA, 2011
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Urban Renewal #5, City Overview From Top of Military Hospital, Shanghai, China, 2004
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Oil Fields #19ab, Belridge, California, USA, 2003
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Breezewood, Pennsylvania, USA, 2008
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Car Terminal Ritthem, Zeeland, The Netherlands, 2011
Densified Scrap Metal #3a, Hamilton, Ontario, 1997
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Shipbreaking #9ab, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2000
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Xiaolangdi Dam #1, Yellow River, Henan Province, China, 2011
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Glacier Catchment, Scud River, Northern British Columbia, Canada, 2012
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Colorado River Delta #2, Near San Felipe, Baja, Mexico, 2011
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Natural Order #13, Grey County, Ontario, Canada, Spring 2020
Filmed by Bokeh Collective, Encountering Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress imagines the experience of seeing the work of Edward Burtynsky on the screens surrounding Yonge-Dundas Square. Captured for Luminato for its 2021 Virtual Festival, Bokeh’s film provides a glimpse of Edward Burtynsky’s In the Wake of Progress as the public art piece it is intended to be.
