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The Beauty and Price of the World According to Edward Burtynsky

In New York, two exhibitions by the Canadian photographer reveal the planet’s transformation under human pressure.

August 15, 2025

Friday August 15, 2025

Summary

In New York, two exhibitions by the Canadian photographer reveal the planet’s transformation under human pressure. From retreating glaciers to reforestation projects, his monumental photographs depict a changing world, a mixture of fascination and concern.

By Jonas Cuénin

More than any other photographer of his generation, Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) crystallized the challenges of photojournalism at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Here are memories of three meetings with a man of the world, who never felt “different from others.”

By Brigitte Ollier

In Chromatic Dystopia, Guilhem Touya travels alone through remote landscapes, illuminating the night with flashes and colored gelatins. His images reveal an uncertain future, where nature, once again sovereign, oscillates between collapse and rebirth.

By Jonas Cuénin

Le Bal, in Paris, presents, for the first time in France, the little-known and sensitive work of Donna Gottschalk, also brought together in a book by Atelier EXB.

By Phillipe Séclier

With her new book, Le Temps de l’immaturité (The Time of Immaturity), published by lamaindonne, Nolwenn Brod offers a series of images that straddles documentary photography, poetic introspection, and existential reflection. A visual journey informed by the writings of Polish artist Witold Gombrowicz, where the gaze becomes a way of being in the world, both sensitive and lucid.

By Norah Auger

Last month, the South Bronx transformed into an outdoor gallery, as the Bronx Documentary Center’s 8th annual Latin American Foto Festival spilled beyond gallery walls to claim the neighborhood’s sidewalks and streets.

By Itzel Robles Sandoval

Bruce Eesly’s exhibition at Les Rencontres de la Photographie festival in Arles questions the dazzling narrative of the Green Revolution.

By Gaia Squarci

The book Newcastle by photographer Luke Kellett is a portrait of a city and its residents, during some of the strictest Covid-19 lockdowns in the world.

By Gaia Squarci

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