TED Talk: Photographer Edward Burtynsky

Photographer Edward Burtynsky has made it his life’s work to document the impact of humanity on the planet using large format photography. His haunting photographs are at one and the same time beautiful, educational, and a look into the unseen world of rock quarries, the path of oil, the rise of dams – all urging us to seek our path to global sustainability.

“Oil collects a decades’ worth of photographing the world’s largest oil fields, refineries, freeway interchanges and automobile plants, in an attempt to comprehend the scale of production attending this most politicized of resources. …”