International Shortlist for the Third Prix Pictet, World’s Leading Prize in Photography, Announced

LONDON.- The shortlist for the Third Prix Pictet, the world’s leading prize in photography and sustainability, is announced today. The theme for this year’s edition is Growth. The shortlisted artists are: Christian Als (Denmark) Edward Burtynsky (Canada) Stéphane Couturier (France) Mitch Epstein (US) Chris Jordan (US) Yeondoo Jung (Korea) Vera Lutter (Germany) Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) Taryn Simon (US) Thomas Struth (Germany) Guy Tillim (South Africa) Michael Wolf (Germany) The winner will be announced by HE Kofi Annan at the [...]

New Visions, New Londons: New Commissions for the Galleries of Modern London

LONDON.- An innovative and radical vision of the city is played out across an impressive elliptical chandelier screen, which stretches for 48 metres around the Sackler Hall, the hub and heart of the Museum’s new galleries. The cinematography of LDN24 takes its inspiration from the still frames, tone poems and landscapes of filmmakers and photographers such as Patrick Keiller, Andreas Gursky, Koyaanisqatsi and Edward Burtynsky. But The Light Surgeons craft a dynamic exchange with the living city by marrying high-definition [...]

Canadian Photographer Edward Burtynsky Presents “Oil” at Huis Marseille

AMSTERDAM.- With his exhibition and publication on oil, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has produced a masterpiece. On the basis of monumental and highly detailed color photographs about oil, its extraction and consumption, which Burtynsky has been making since 1997, he reveals the connection between our use of oil and the effect this has on the landscape. Within this context the relationship between the culture of oil consumption and the immense infrastructure that it requires is also firmly established. Ultimately Burtynsky’s [...]