Burtynsky’s work has been exhibited at venues across the world including New York City’s Guggenheim Museum and Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum, and he was the 2005 winner of the TED Prize which recognises remarkable people inspiring global change. Vancouver Art Gallery presents A Terrible Beauty, a comprehensive study of 44 works produced by Burtynsky over a thirty-year period between 1983 and 2013, and features landscapes of locations as varied as British Columbia, China and Mexico. Photography from Burtynsky’s latest project Water will be exhibited including awe-inspiring bird’s-eye views of Iceland’s Markarfljot River and the Colorado River delta in San Felipe, Mexico.