ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Edward Burtynsky - Photographer
2005 TED Prize winner Edward Burtynsky has made it his life's work to document humanity's impact on the planet. His riveting photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.

Why you should listen

To describe Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's work in a single adjective, you have to speak French: jolie-laide. His images of scarred landscapes -- from mountains of tires to rivers of bright orange waste from a nickel mine -- are eerily pretty yet ugly at the same time. Burtynsky's large-format color photographs explore the impact of humanity's expanding footprint and the substantial ways in which we're reshaping the surface of the planet. His images powerfully alter the way we think about the world and our place in it.

With his blessing and encouragement, WorldChanging.com and others use his work to inspire ongoing global conversations about sustainable living. Burtynsky's photographs are included in the collections of over 50 museums around the world, including the Tate, London and the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York City. A large-format book, 2003's Manufactured Landscapes, collected his work, and in 2007, a documentary based on his photography, also called Manufactured Landscapes, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival before going on to screen at Sundance and elsewhere. It was released on DVD in March 2007. In 2008, after giving a talk at the Long Now Foundation, Burtynsky proposed "The 10,000 Year Gallery," which could house art to be curated over thousands of years preserved through carbon transfers in an effort to reflect the attitudes and changes of the world over time. 

When Burtynsky accepted his 2005 TED Prize, he made three wishes. One of his wishes: to build a website that will help kids think about going green. Thanks to WGBH and the TED community, the show and site Meet the Greens debuted at TED2007. His second wish: to begin work on an Imax film, which morphed into the jaw-dropping film Manufactured Landscapes with Jennifer Baichwal. And his third wish, wider in scope, was simply to encourage "a massive and productive worldwide conversation about sustainable living." Thanks to his help and the input of the TED community, the site WorldChanging.com got an infusion of energy that has helped it to grow into a leading voice in the sustainability community.

In 2016, he won a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts for his work.

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TEDGlobal 2009

Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the landscape of oil

Edward Burtynsky'nin petrol manzarası fotoğrafları

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Çarpıcı boyutlardaki fotoğraflarıyla Edward Burtynsky petrolün rafineriden, boru hattından ve arabaların motorlarından geçen yolculuğunu takip ediyor.
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I startedbaşladı my journeyseyahat 30 yearsyıl agoönce.
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Yolculuğum bundan 30 yıl önce başladı.
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And I workedişlenmiş in minesmayınlar. And I realizedgerçekleştirilen that
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Madenlerde çalıştım. Ve madenlerin keşfedilmemiş
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this was a worldDünya unseengörünmeyen.
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bir dünya olduğunu farkettim
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And I wanted, throughvasitasiyla colorrenk and largegeniş formatbiçim cameraskameralar
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Renkleri, geniş açılı kameraları
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and very largegeniş printsbaskılar,
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ve büyük boyutlu baskıları kullanarak
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to make a bodyvücut of work that somehowbir şekilde
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toprağı, araziyi nasıl kullandığımızın
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becameoldu symbolssemboller of our
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sembolü haline gelmiş bir işin
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use of the landscapepeyzaj,
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portresini çizmek istedim.
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how we use the landarazi.
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.
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And to me this was
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Ve ben bu manzaraları
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a keyanahtar componentbileşen that somehowbir şekilde, throughvasitasiyla this mediumorta of photographyfotoğrafçılık,
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tasarlamamıza olanak veren
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whichhangi allowsverir us to contemplatedüşünmek these landscapesmanzaralar,
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fotoğrafçılık sayesinde
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that I thought photographyfotoğrafçılık was perfectlykusursuzca suiteduygun
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bunu çok rahat bir şekilde
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to doing this typetip of work.
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yapabileceğimi düşündüm.
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And after 17 yearsyıl of photographingfotoğraflama largegeniş industrialSanayi landscapesmanzaralar,
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17 yıl boyunca büyük sanayi tesislerini fotoğrafladıktan sonra
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it occurredoluştu to me that
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bunların büyüklüğün ve hızının temelinde
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oilsıvı yağ is underpinningDestek the scaleölçek and speedhız.
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petrolün yattığını anladım.
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Because that is what has changeddeğişmiş,
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çünkü değişen bu hızdı.
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is the speedhız at whichhangi we're takingalma all our resourceskaynaklar.
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Bizim kaynaklarımızı kullanmamızın hızı.
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And so then I wentgitti out to developgeliştirmek a wholebütün seriesdizi
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Bunun üzerine petrol manzaralarından
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on the landscapepeyzaj of oilsıvı yağ.
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oluşan bir hikaye oluşturmaya başladım.
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And what I want to do is to kindtür of mapharita an arcArk
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Bir harita oluşturmak istiyordum.
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that there is extractionayıklama, where we're takingalma it from the groundzemin,
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Haritanın ilk bölümü petrolü topraktan çıkardığımız yer
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refinementArıtma. And that's one chapterbölüm.
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yani rafineriydi.
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The other chapterbölüm that I wanted to look at was
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Ondan sonraki bölümde
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how we use it -- our citiesşehirler,
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petrolü kullandığımız yerleri, şehirlerimizi
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our carsarabalar, our motorculturesmotorcultures,
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arabalarımızı
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where people gathertoplamak around the vehiclearaç
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ve bunların etrafında oluşturduğumuz
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as a celebrationkutlama.
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kültür vardı.
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And then the thirdüçüncü one is this ideaFikir of the endson of oilsıvı yağ,
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Üçünü bölüm ise petrolün sonu
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this entropicentropik endson,
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Entropik son
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where all of our partsparçalar of carsarabalar, our tireslastikler,
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Bütün bu araba parçaları, lastikler,
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oilsıvı yağ filtersfiltreler,
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yağ filtreleri,
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helicoptersHelikopterler, planesdüzlemler --
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helikopterler, uçaklar
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where are the landscapesmanzaralar where all of that stuffşey endsuçları up?
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Petrolle alakalı bütün bu malzemelerin sonunu gösteren manzaraları vardı.
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And to me, again, photographyfotoğrafçılık was
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Ve fotoğraf yine
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a way in whichhangi I could explorekeşfetmek and researchAraştırma the worldDünya,
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bu manzaraları araştırıp
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and find those placesyerler.
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bulmanın bir yoluydu.
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And anotherbir diğeri ideaFikir that I had as well,
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Aynı zamanda bir ekolojist
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that was broughtgetirdi forwardileri by an ecologistekolojist --
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tarafından da ortaya atılan ve aklıma takılan başka bir
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he basicallytemel olarak did a calculationhesaplama where
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fikir daha vardı.
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he tookaldı one literlitre of gasgaz and said,
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well, how much carbonkarbon it would take, and how much organicorganik materialmalzeme?
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ne kadar karbon ve organik madde gerektiğiydi?
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It was 23 metricmetrik tonston for one literlitre.
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Sonuç 1 litre benzin için 23 tondu.
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So wheneverher ne zaman I filldoldurmak up my gasgaz,
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Şimdi ne zaman benzin alsam
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I think of that literlitre, and how much carbonkarbon.
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aklıma bu karbon miktarı geliyor.
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And I know that oilsıvı yağ comesgeliyor from the oceanokyanus and phytoplanktonfitoplankton,
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Bu benzinin okyanuslardan, bitkilerden ve bitki benzeri organizmalardan geldiğini biliyorum.
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but he did the calculationshesaplamalar for our EarthDünya
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Aynı zamanda Dünyamızın bu enerji
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and what it had to do to produceüretmek that amounttutar of energyenerji.
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yeniden üretmek için ne kadar çalışması gerektiği de hesaplandı.
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From the photosyntheticfotosentetik growthbüyüme,
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Fotosentez süreçlerini kullanarak
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it would take 500 yearsyıl of that growthbüyüme
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bir yılda tükettiğimiz 30 milyar varil benzinin tekrar üretmek için
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to produceüretmek what we use, the 30 billionmilyar barrelsvaril we use perbaşına yearyıl.
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Dünya'nın tam 500 yıla ihtiyacı var.
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And that alsoAyrıca broughtgetirdi me to the factgerçek that
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Bu gerçek toplumumuz
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this posespozlar suchböyle a riskrisk to our societytoplum.
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için çok ciddi bir risk oluşturuyor.
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Looking at 30 billionmilyar perbaşına yearyıl,
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Yıllık 30 milyar petrol tüketimimizi
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we look at our two largesten büyük supplierstedarikçileri,
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göz önünde bulundurursak,
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SaudiSuudi ArabiaArabistan and now CanadaKanada, with its dirtykirli oilsıvı yağ.
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en büyük iki petrol üreticisi olan Suudi Arabistan ve Kanada'nın
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And togetherbirlikte they only formform about 15 yearsyıl of supplyarz.
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petrol rezervleri ancak 15 yıl dayanabilir.
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The wholebütün worldDünya, at 1.2 trilliontrilyon estimatedtahmini reservesrezervler,
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Dünya'nın toplam 1.2 trilyon rezervesi ise
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only givesverir us about 45 yearsyıl.
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ancak 45 yıl dayanabilir.
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So, it's not a questionsoru of if, but a questionsoru of when
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Yani düşünmemiz gereken sorun petrolün bitip bitmeyeceği değil.
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peakzirve oilsıvı yağ will come uponüzerine us.
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Ne zaman biteceği?
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So, to me, usingkullanma photographyfotoğrafçılık --
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Ben fotoğrafları kullarak
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and I feel that all of us need to now beginbaşla to really
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herkesin
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take the taskgörev of usingkullanma our talentsyetenekleri,
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bütün yeneteklerini
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our waysyolları of thinkingdüşünme,
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ve zekalarını kullanarak
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to beginbaşla to dealanlaştık mı with what I think is probablymuhtemelen
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gittikçe yaklaşan
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one of the mostçoğu challengingmeydan okuma issuessorunlar of our time,
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ve toplumumuzun önündeki en büyük sorunlardan biri olan
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how to dealanlaştık mı with our energyenerji crisiskriz.
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enerji krizini çözmek çaba sarf etmeye yöneltmek istedim.
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And I would like to say that, on the other sideyan of it,
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Ve bundan
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30, 40 yearsyıl from now, the childrençocuklar that I have,
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30, 40 yıl sonra çocuğuma
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I can look at them and say, "We did everything
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insanlık olarak
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we possiblybelki, humanlyinsanca could do,
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bu sorunu çözmek adına
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to beginbaşla to mitigateazaltmak this,
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elimizden gelen
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what I feel is one of the mostçoğu importantönemli and criticalkritik
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her şeyi yaptığımızı söylemek istiyorum.
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momentsanlar in our time. Thank you.
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Teşekkürler.
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(ApplauseAlkış)
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(Alkış)
Translated by Ferit Tenöz
Reviewed by Sinan Özgün

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Edward Burtynsky - Photographer
2005 TED Prize winner Edward Burtynsky has made it his life's work to document humanity's impact on the planet. His riveting photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind.

Why you should listen

To describe Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's work in a single adjective, you have to speak French: jolie-laide. His images of scarred landscapes -- from mountains of tires to rivers of bright orange waste from a nickel mine -- are eerily pretty yet ugly at the same time. Burtynsky's large-format color photographs explore the impact of humanity's expanding footprint and the substantial ways in which we're reshaping the surface of the planet. His images powerfully alter the way we think about the world and our place in it.

With his blessing and encouragement, WorldChanging.com and others use his work to inspire ongoing global conversations about sustainable living. Burtynsky's photographs are included in the collections of over 50 museums around the world, including the Tate, London and the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York City. A large-format book, 2003's Manufactured Landscapes, collected his work, and in 2007, a documentary based on his photography, also called Manufactured Landscapes, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival before going on to screen at Sundance and elsewhere. It was released on DVD in March 2007. In 2008, after giving a talk at the Long Now Foundation, Burtynsky proposed "The 10,000 Year Gallery," which could house art to be curated over thousands of years preserved through carbon transfers in an effort to reflect the attitudes and changes of the world over time. 

When Burtynsky accepted his 2005 TED Prize, he made three wishes. One of his wishes: to build a website that will help kids think about going green. Thanks to WGBH and the TED community, the show and site Meet the Greens debuted at TED2007. His second wish: to begin work on an Imax film, which morphed into the jaw-dropping film Manufactured Landscapes with Jennifer Baichwal. And his third wish, wider in scope, was simply to encourage "a massive and productive worldwide conversation about sustainable living." Thanks to his help and the input of the TED community, the site WorldChanging.com got an infusion of energy that has helped it to grow into a leading voice in the sustainability community.

In 2016, he won a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts for his work.

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