African Studies: Edward Burtynsky artist made 5" height x 7

5" height x 7

This project brings together the work of seven years

installations and site-specific works

The book includes a conversation between Dosunmu and Arthur Jafa

A record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters

African Studies: Edward Burtynsky artist made 5" height x 7In Edward Burtynskys recent photographs, produced across the African continent, the patterns and scars of human altered landscapes initially appear to form an abstract painterly language; they reference the sublime and often surreal qualities of human mark making. While chronicling the major themes of terraforming and extraction, urbanization and deforestation, African Studies conveys the unsettling reality of sweeping resource depletion on both a