Edward Burtynsky

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 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.