Burtysnky - China

Let’s jump away from Korea for a moment and focus on China, and in particular an amazing set of photographs and audio commentary by Canadian photogapher Edward Burtynsky:

In headlong leaps toward capitalism, during the past 25 years, the lifestyles and landscapes of China have been changing beyond recognition with blinding speed. To officially signal the change to the world, in 1992, Deng Xiao Ping proclaimed, “To be rich is to be glorious!” Yet the mad rush to embrace Western ideals has — and is — creating profound consequences for the people of China and for the rest of the world

Canadian photogapher Edward Burtynsky worked through diplomatic channels to gain access to photograph many sites undergoing enormous change. With his large format camera, over the course of three years, Burtysnky has captured the vast scale and minute details of monumental transformations of a society.

The photos of Shanghai and the Three Gorges Dam are breathtaking.

Posted in China on Monday May 8, 2006.