Edward Burtynsky is a contemporary fine art photographer and filmmaker; his remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes and their incursions into the natural landscape are included in the collections of over 60 major museums around the world.

He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work including the inaugural TED Prize, the title of Officer of the Order of Canada, the ICP Infinity Award for Art, along with multiple awards for the three documentaries on which he has worked with filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, the third of which is part of their latest collaboration: The Anthropocene Project.