Zitat des Tages von Edward Burtynsky:
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.
Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.
I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.
Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.
I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.
