His current venture is WATER, and is due for
completion in 2013 after a 5-year commitment.
This should be interesting. If he
stays true to form, there should be an environmental element to his series, but
one that stops short of promoting any specific agenda of any kind. I’d like to see how he’s going to accomplish
that in the world of water!
There are a few hints as to what will come up in his
water series. He has already shot the
Three Gorges Dam Project in China – having had to use a drone to capture the
high views since, according to Burtynsky, there is no civil aviation space in
the skies of China. The next item
mentioned is “irrigation circles”.
Again, this should be interesting. I hope he does something different than more aerial shots of pivots neatly patterned across the plains. It’s then off to Niagara Falls I assume since he mentions that after 3
years he’s still contemplating how to shoot the falls without being
“postcard-y”. There is also a hint that
he’ll cross over his oil segment with water by using some of the BP oil spill
shots in the Gulf of Mexico.
He was asked if there is any aspect of the water shoot
that he has found particularly challenging to capture? His answer was “the source – where water comes
from”. I often cruise Google Images
looking for groundwater pictures and I certainly sympathize with him
on this one - assuming he's going to include groundwater in his series at all!
For a peek of what this photographer has been up to you can visit his web site here.
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