• Nicholas Metivier Gallery is excited to announce Conversations, a two-person exhibition featuring internationally renowned photographers, Edward Burtynsky and Sebastião Salgado. 
     
    Conversations focuses on landscape, a subject at the core of both artists’ iconic practices. New releases by Burtynsky from across the globe, including the Coast Mountains in British Columbia and the Hoh Rainforest in Washington State, will be placed in context with luminous new Platinum-Palladium prints by Salgado.
     
    Their respective practices have evolved over several decades and while Burtynsky has embraced the most innovative in digital technologies, Salgado works exclusively in black and white, preferring early printing techniques. The platinum palladium technique is known for its beautiful aesthetic and archival properties. While their chosen photographic mediums diverge, both artists aspire to attain the most remarkable surface detail and tonal range as possible. They are works that must be viewed in person to appreciate their dimensional and tactile qualities.
  • Edward Burtynsky, Rainforest #2, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA, 2024

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    Rainforest #2, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA, 2024
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  • Edward Burtynsky, Thjorsá River #3, Southern Region, Iceland, 2012

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    Thjorsá River #3, Southern Region, Iceland, 2012
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    • Edward Burtynsky Coast Mountains #22, Glacier with Firn Snow, British Columbia, Canada, 2023 pigment inkjet print on Kodak Professional Photo Paper
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      Coast Mountains #22, Glacier with Firn Snow, British Columbia, Canada, 2023
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    • Sebastião Salgado, Valdes Peninsula, Argentina, 2004
      Sebastião Salgado, Valdes Peninsula, Argentina, 2004
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    • Sebastião Salgado, Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), Galapagos, Ecuador, 2004
      Sebastião Salgado, Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), Galapagos, Ecuador, 2004
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    • Sebastião Salgado, The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Brooks Range, north eastern Alaska, 2009
      Sebastião Salgado, The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Brooks Range, north eastern Alaska, 2009
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  • Edward Burtynsky, Ölfusá River #3, Southern Region, Iceland, 2012

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    Ölfusá River #3, Southern Region, Iceland, 2012
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  • Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished contemporary photographers. The predominant theme in his work is...

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    Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished contemporary photographers. The predominant theme in his work is nature transformed through industry and he has documented some of the most poignant examples of this around the world. Often using an aerial vantage point, his large-scale photographs are rich in detail and vast in scale, sometimes verging on the appearance of painterly abstractions. Burtynsky works on each project for several years before it is released. Major projects include Quarries, Oil, Water, Anthropocene and African Studies.

     

    Edward Burtynsky was born in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1955 and is based in Toronto. His photographs are included in the collections of over sixty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; the Tate Modern, London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California. Exhibitions include Anthropocene (2018) at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada (international touring exhibition); Water (2013) at the New Orleans Museum of Art & Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, (international touring exhibition) and Oil (2009) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (touring 2009-2014). Awards and distinctions include the TED Prize, the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, The Outreach award at the Rencontres d’Arles, the Roloff Beny Book award, and the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. In 2006 Burtynsky was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2008 he was awarded the ICP Infinity Award for Art. In 2020 he was awarded a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship and in 2022 was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award by the World Photography Organization. Most recently Burtynsky was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and was named the 2022 recipient for the annual Pollution Probe Award. In February 2024, Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction, a major retrospective of the photographer’s career, opened at the Saatchi Gallery in London, UK.

  • Sebastião Salgado is an internationally acclaimed social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has captured major news events as well as...

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    Sebastião Salgado is an internationally acclaimed social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has captured major news events as well as completed long-term documentary projects. Salgado has travelled to over 120 countries, often working in remote places. He records his subjects of humanity, wildlife and nature with a profound sense of empathy and respect. Salgado photographs in black and white, preferring a gelatin silver process, and he prints all of his own works at his studio in Paris.

     

    Sebastião Salgado was born in Brazil in 1944. He has been the recipient of numerous photographic prizes in recognition of his accomplishments, including the Gold Medal Award for Photography from the National Arts Club in New York. Several books have been published on Salgado’s work including Workers, Migrations and Genesis. Salgado was part of the well-known cooperative agency, Magnum Photos, for 15 years before founding his own agency, Amazonas images, in Paris with his wife Léila Wanick Salgado. Since 2013, Genesis has been touring to leading museums around the world including the British Museum, London, UK; International Centre of Photography, New York; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Ara Pacis Museum, Rome and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. A 2015 documentary film on the life and work of Salgado, The Salt of The Earth, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. Salgado was appointed to the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France and elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  He was the recipient of the 2021 World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award for his leadership in addressing issues of inequality and sustainability and holds an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Harvard University.