Edward Burtynsky, Water

With California in the midst of a particularly intense multi-year drought and 2015 looking to be the warmest year on record by a wide margin,¹ Edward Burtynsky’s “Water” series of photographs is especially relevant.

Many of photos in the series are on display in Berkeley through February and are also available in book form.

Update: Burtynsky also collaborated on a documentary about water called Watermark. Here’s a trailer:

The film is available to watch on Amazon Instant and iTunes. (via @steveportigal)

1. I mean, look at this chart from the NOAA of the warmest years since 1880…2015 is a Lionel Messi-esque outlier. And Eric Holthaus says that with the strong El Niño, 2016 is forecast to be even hotter.↩

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