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How Edward Burtynsky Shows Us Who We Are

Edward Burtynsky’s award-winning, large-scale photographs illuminate the environmental cost and alarming beauty of human intervention in natural landscapes. We spoke with him about his artistic influences, human responsibility for the planet, and the great grief behind it all.

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A Photographer’s Journey Into the Fire Zone

In 2020 photojournalist Jennifer Osborne travelled to shoot the massive Australia bushfires. Now she’s made wildfire photography her life’s calling.
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Through the Lens of Ben Zank

The New York City–based photographer shares how he brings energy and movement to still photography.
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A Groundbreaking Nature Photographer Rediscovered

In partnership with McCord Museum

A new look through the lens of Alexander Henderson.

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The Empowering Mushroom

Since 2011, artist Eirik Johnson has been photographing the complex world of matsutake mushrooms, from the forests of Oregon to the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo. Discover the incredible story of this revered fungi.
Through the lens / Visual Essay

Egypt’s Lost Eden

A visual essay by Catherine Hyland
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Right to Defend, Right to Resist

Before the war, many Ukrainian civilians joined local Territorial Defence Units. Today, they are fighting to protect their country.
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Tiny Grandeur

The artist Jon Sasaki wants you to reconsider the scale of a landscape in his new series of photographs showing the bacteria left behind by famous nature artists.

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Issue 11 Cover Story

Through the Lens of Alma Kismic
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Through the Lens of Drowster

Capturing humanity, one image at a time.
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Saving Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees

A deadly epidemic has been wiping out olive trees in the south of Italy. While farmers struggle to rebound, one enterprising agronomist is fighting to preserve the country’s oldest and largest trees.

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Alive and Well in Anacostia Park

Amid the pandemic, the social fabric remains strong in one of the U.S. capital’s most vital public spaces.

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Through the Lens of Johnny C. Y. Lam

Seeing connection beyond distance.

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Desert Dwellers

For residents of Slab City, absolute freedom is far from free.
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Through the Lens of Letizia Le Fur

Turning reality into a dream.
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Hidden in Plain Flight

The decline of earth’s most abundant gull.

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Through the Lens of CĂ©line Clanet

Her main material: the unexpected.
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Through the lens of Ash Adams

Finding depth and complexity in the Alaskan landscape and its people.
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Through the Lens of Guillaume Beaudoin

Travelling the world to find beauty in difference and strength in change
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Issue 09 Cover Story: Conrad Kain Hut

The Conrad Kain Hut in Bugaboo Provincial Park offers a vision of nordicity for the 21st century.

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Gaëlle Elma

Rooted in the Intimacy of Bodies

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Naima Green

Brooklyn photographer Naima Green creates portraits of people of colour—artists, activists, community builders—in urban oases of greenery of cities which bear significant histories of Black migration to the United States.
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Québec’s Northernmost Gardens

In the Reford Gardens, you wander amongst the northern and the exotic, architecture and contemporary art, botany and gastronomy, the know-how of gardeners and local and international landscape designers. Pinch yourself if you must; this idyll is real.
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Through the lens of Chiara Zonca

Seeking connections and feelings in isolated spaces
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A Difficult Beauty

Richard Misrach finds the sublime in the desert’s harshness.

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Through the lens of Sam Raetz

Breathtaking images inspired by nature’s great works of art.

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Sumo Champions

For nomadic Mongolian youths, sumo wrestling offers an unexpected path to success amidst their rough life on this fragile land.
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Reclaiming the Rails

What originated as a tool of resource extraction and exploitation, this First Nations-run railway provides a lifeline and a mobile community for the remote communities it serves.

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Through the lens of Christina Holmes

Breathtaking images inspired by nature’s great works of art.

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Through the lens of UN CERCLE

Breathtaking images inspired by nature’s great works of art.

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Through the lens of Nicolas Gouin

De contrastes, de franchise et d’espoir.
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Through the lens of Angela Gzowski

Pour celui qui voulait devenir photographe de guerre, la photo est une porte d'entrée privilégiée vers des histoires, des gens, des lieux.
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Dark into Light

Crows and ravens don’t deserve our dread. In Murder, photographer Guillaume Simoneau offers a surprising new vision of black birds.

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Through the lens of Ana Paula Alvarez

On family, emotional landscapes, and the art of photography

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Through the lens Yan Kaczynski

On the realness and raw beauty of nature.
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Through the lens of Graeme Owsianski

Outdoor lifestyle photographer based in Ucluelet, British Columbia.

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Through the lens of Camrin Dengel

On self-sufficiency, heritage and returning to our roots.
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Through the lens of Tom Hegen

Looking at the Anthropocene from above.
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Through the lens of Jo Savage

Her photography focuses on uncovering the layers of untold stories within surf, skate, and mountain communities around the world.
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Through the lens of Pat Kane

Capturing the people and relationships at the heart northern Canada.
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The Quieter Side of the Mountain

Canadian skier and photographer Kari Medig travels the globe in search of an alternate and unsung view of the ski world — and the force that binds it all together.

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Glorious Scavengers

What it’s like to live with a national symbol.

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Issue 05 Cover Story: Atacama Desert

Chile’s lithium ponds provide an electric future.
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Through the lens of Alex Strohl

Alex Strohl is one of today’s most inspiring, talented, and authentic outdoor photographers.

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Issue 03 Cover Story: Barrage Hoover

In full bloom, we see nature’s bright palette of desert hues come to life, and simultaneously, the once-slow stride of environmental change happen right before our eyes.