Earth’s Poet of Scale

Edward Burtynsky’s monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale

It’s not that Burtynsky can’t photograph bodies and faces—tender portraits, such as “Shipbreaking #14,” part of his series on the almost unbelievable story of the Bangladeshi men who dismantled retired oil tankers by hand, show that he connects quite easily on the smaller scale with people in his vast world. But it’s the vastness that’s his true subject.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/earths-poet-of-scale