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Book cover: Anthropocene by Edward Burtynsky, with Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier

December 2018

Anthropocene by Edward Burtynsky

Anthropocene, a book by photographer Edward Burtynsky, documents human influence on the Earth through fine art photography and essays, accompanying a major museum exhibition shown in Toronto and Ottawa in 2018 and a film premiering at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The project combines photography, film, virtual reality, and scientific research to investigate the scale of humanity's impact on the planet.

The book Anthropocene is part of The Anthropocene Project, a “multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth.” Utilizing photographs from Edward Burtynsky that are also part of the exhibition, the book includes essays from the authors and others.

The major museum exhibition was at Art Galleries in Toronto and Ottawa, Canada during 2018 and also will open at Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia (MAST) in Bologna in the Spring of 2019.

The film, which has been playing in Canada, will have its international premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Further details and content can be found at theanthropocene.org.

About this article

First published in Mondial, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (December 2018), US edition.

Mondial has been published in print twice a year since 2017 by Citizens for Global Solutions and World Federalist Movement – Canada.

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