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Little did Edward Burtynsky think when he invested in a state-of-the-art, 150 megapixel, Phase One camera system last year that he would be using it to make pictures of brambles and lichen. The Canadian photographer, now 65, is more usually to be found 1,000ft up, creating majestic, giant’s-eye views of industry and its devastating effect on the environment. Views that have earned him, among many other
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awards, eight honorary doctorate degrees, a TED Prize and now an RPS Honorary Fellowship. In his practised hands, hulking tankers, quarries, dams, bitumen sands and freeway intersections are turned into spectacular arrangements of shape, space, pattern and perspective. Look at what we’re losing, his pictures say, even as we lose it. In mid-March 2020, with 10 days to spare before a trip to Ethiopia and