Posts Tagged ‘ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch’
The photographer sizing up the planet’s human footprint
By Leslie Hook Financial Times The word “ Anthropocene” first entered popular use about 20 years ago as scientists looked for a way to describe a new geologic era, one defined by the impact of humans. Earlier eras have been linked to climatic shifts caused by asteroids or ice ages, but now it is human…
Read More‘It’s hard at this particular moment to be optimistic’ – Edward Burtynsky on the future of the planet
By Fatema Ahmed | Apollo Magazine The Canadian photographer talks to Fatema Ahmed about The Anthropocene Project – two exhibitions, a film and a book exploring man’s effect on Earth and capturing the spirit of what some scientists consider to be a new geological epoch. When did you become interested in the Anthropocene, and how did this project…
Read MoreAnthropocene’s Jennifer Baichwal ponders the demented argument between technology and nature
By Adrian Mack | Georgia Straight Of the many technical wonders that we see in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch—if wonder is the right word— the Bagger 288 might be the most awe-inspiring. A bucket-wheel excavator that crawls implacably across the vast Tagebau Hambach open-pit coal mine in Germany, it looks like a gargantuan shopping mall on wheels…
Read MoreAnthropocene film captures a world of devastation
By Mike Devlin | Times Colonist A new documentary from a team that includes acclaimed director Jennifer Baichwal looks at the impact modern civilization has had on Earth over thousands of years, and the results aren’t pretty. There have been significant hydrologic, atmospheric, biospheric and geological shifts during the Holocene period, most of which have been brought…
Read MoreInterview: Edward Burtynsky Finds New Perspectives on the Anthropocene
By Rachel MacFarlane | FORMAT Magazine The renowned Canadian photographer discusses his latest work, which uses AR, film, and photography to document environmental change. October has been a busy month for Edward Burtynsky. Most significantly, the Canadian artist released a new series of his photographs, titled Anthropocene, on until November 3 at Toronto’s Nicholas Metivier Gallery. With collaborators…
Read MoreAnthropocene: The Human Epoch makes viewers think about big issues
By Nathan Krause | Nexus Newspaper About a third of the way into Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, a man installing an electric car battery is wearing a T-shirt that states these words: “Don’t know, don’t care.” Director Jennifer Baichwal, who grew up in Victoria, has created a meditative film (the third in a series, following Manufactured Landscapes and Watermark)…
Read MoreWhat happens when humans rule the Earth: Documenting the Anthropocene
By Collin Ellis TVO The trio of filmmakers behind the documentaries Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark(2013) are back with the visually stunning and sobering Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, which chronicles the impact human activity has had on the planet. An accompanying exhibition will run at the Art Gallery of Ontario until January 6. We sat down with Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky,…
Read MoreAnthropocene Examines the Shocking Impact Humans Have on the Earth
By Truc Nguyen | NUVO Magazine This month, Anthropocene—a photography and multimedia art exhibition from artists Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier—opens simultaneously at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, the first time the two museums have offered concurrent, complementary shows from the same artists. The Anthropocene Project also encompasses a feature documentary film arriving in theatres…
Read MoreBeautiful pictures of terrible things
By Liz Braun | Toronto Sun The end of the world is beautiful to look at. See for yourself at Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, a new film that offers magnificent pictures of the mess humans have made on this planet. Anthropocene is the name of the current geological age, a period in which the dominant influence on…
Read MoreSprawling Anthropocene project shows humanity’s enormous impact on the planet
By Murray Whyte | Toronto Star The camera sweeps slowly, right to left, along a towering ridge of ochre stone. The sense is of the monumental — the kind of majesty and scale that only the primal force of violent nature, operating at planetary scale, could yield. Then you see it, and the world turns suddenly…
Read MoreAnthropocene offers stunning and scary glances at the large-scale changes humanity has made to the planet
By Chris Knight | National Post ★★★★ Who knew the end of the world could be so beautiful? The latest eco-doc from Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark), co-directed by Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier, shows viewers some of the large-scale changes we are making to the planet. Like the second sunrise of a hydrogen bomb, they…
Read MoreCutting-edge artistry ushers in troubling new era
By Sandra Abma | CBC News This week on the list: a mind-boggling look at humankind’s impact on our planet, a showcase of animation’s best and brightest, and a big sound on a couple of small stages. Anthropocene Anthropocene, on now at the National Gallery of Canada, is a vivid voyage into the environmental catastrophe wrought by…
Read MoreAnthropocene project highlights the apocalyptic beauty of humans’ effect on the planet
By CBC Radio: The Current The burning of 10,000 elephant tusks piled into an enormous funeral pyres in Kenya’s National Park in Nairobi is both a devastating and beautiful image to look at — a reaction that photographer Edward Burtynsky intended. His photographs are part of a multimedia project called Anthropocene that merges film, photography and…
Read MoreReview: Anthropocene is a shocking and beautiful documentary
By Kate Taylor The Globe and Mail ★★★★ Vast rectangular ponds of foul yellow water lie evaporating in the Chilean desert; they will produce the lithium that powers electric-car batteries. A gorgeous red-and-grey rock is imprinted with an eye-catching circular pattern: It’s the mark of Russian potash mining, extracting one of the fertilizers that is…
Read MoreDocumenting our Man-Made Epoch
The Agenda with Steve Paikin Aired September 28 Photographer Edward Burtynsky, filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, and director of photography Nicholas De Pencier join Steve Paikin to discuss “Anthropocene: The Human Epoch.” The multifaceted project explores humankind’s tremendous effect on planet Earth. Watch the segment here.
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