The present can be a great stimulant to think about the future. A high emotional response to the rights and wrongs today is a powerful way to enhance contrast between the present and the future, to think further ahead, to be less bound by today’s reality, while staying in context.

John Berger once said: “We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.” Edward Burtynsky chose to look at our planet there where our impact on its landscape is strongly visible. He lets us look through his eye and judge for ourselves.

As a movie, Manufactured landscapes won the 2007 Genie Award for Best Documentary. Some of the amazing imagery reminds of Godfrey Reggio’s famous Qatsi trilogy.

Photo by Edward Burtynsky

Finally got it online, Serge. Thanks again for the pointer.

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