Overview
Curated by David Campany, The Great Acceleration presents over seventy photographs, including many of Burtynsky’s landmark images, some of which have never previously been shown, along with three ultra high-resolution murals. The exhibition also includes a visual and narrative timeline of Burtynsky’s creative life. Intentionally scheduled to extend through Climate Week NYC in September 2025, The Great Acceleration will serve not only as an urgent call for action, but will also give visitors the opportunity to appreciate the sublimity that remains in the landscape, while also deepening our understanding of the challenges that confront us today.
Marking the opening of The Great Acceleration we are delighted to present a survey of selected works from Edward Burtynsky. Chronicling the major themes of terraforming and extraction, urbanisation and deforestation, Burtynsky conveys the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion and extinction across the globe, reflecting: "Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times."
Image credits: Install, Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration, 2025, International Center of Photography, New York, © The Artist, Photography by Charles Roussel.
