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Burtynsky was struck, too, by how similar the pictures he was taking were to those he was making 40 years ago with his 4x5 view camera. He singled out a particular photograph from 1981 – a tangle of grasses and stalks reflected in a lake – which still did something for him. The new photographs – their title is Natural Order – are created by focus stacking, whereby multiple images with different focus distances are combined in processing to produce one image
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‘Dandora Landfill #3, Plastics Recycling, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016’
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with a greater depth of field. Burtynsky has published some in a new book with Steidl, and exhibited them at Nicholas Metivier, Toronto, and online with Flowers Gallery, London. He considers the series a “tip of the hat” to abstract expressionism. “Because they have that all-overness of a [Jackson] Pollock drip painting, where the layers that were first laid down are still as sharp as the drips that go on top. You can just dig in with your eyes.”