Anthropocene is a multidisciplinary body of work by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, which includes a photobook, a major travelling museum exhibition, a feature-length documentary film, and an interactive educational website. The project’s starting point is the research of the Anthropocene Working Group, an international body of scientists who argue that the Holocene epoch ended around 1950, and that we have officially entered the Anthropocene in recognition of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth’s system.
Artist: https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/anthropocene
Project: https://theanthropocene.org/
Anthropocene is the newest book by Edward Burtynsky to document human destruction of the earth on a geological scale. In photos as beautiful as they are disconcerting, Burtynsky explores issues such as extinction (large-scale burning of elephant tusks to disrupt illegal trade and the black market, the plight of the last white rhino), technofossils (Nigerian landfill sites entirely of plastic, massive concrete tetrapods to protect Chinese coastline from erosion), and terraforming (mines and industrial agriculture).
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Great that you introduced this book for your followers. It’s fantastic. I also wrote about it on my blog earlier and I have written an article for a Finnish photo magazine about him several years ago when he had an exhibition in Stockholm (I live in Finland). So I met him there and did an interview with him. Unfortunately I couldn’t go to see this Anthropocene exhibition as such, but I saw some photos of the project in a gallery in London.
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