Show, don’t tell Beautiful environmental documentary opts for powerful visuals over facts and figures

By Alison Gilmor | Winnipeg Free Press The saturated colours, the rhythmic patterns, the sublime scale: Seen through the estheticizing lens of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, open-pit mines, mineral evaporation ponds and oil refineries take on a strange dystopian beauty. It’s disturbing that environmental devastation should be so stunning, but that’s the controversial paradox at the … Continue reading Show, don’t tell Beautiful environmental documentary opts for powerful visuals over facts and figures