Since before the era of Aristotle, man has been experimenting with the use of certain mechanism to document and duplicate a scene or objects. These experimentation leads to the discovery of camera obscura by Mozi, a Chinese philosopher, or a optical mechanism device that is capable of transferring images of its surrounding to paper or screen. The first documented photograph, however, was not born until 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a French inventor. Since then Photography has been a media for many possibilities. Through the lens of the camera, photographer could successfully catch the hidden beauty of any objects that most of the people ignored or simply cannot see.

One of the most prominent photographers in the world of photography today is Edward Burtinsky. Edward Burtinsky was born on February 22^nd, 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada to a Ukraine family. During the year of 1970s to 1982, Burtinksy had obtained a diploma in Graphic Arts from Niagara College in Ontario and BAA in Photographic Arts from Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in Toronto. Since then, Burtinsky has been experimenting with different subjects for his photograph.

Burtinsky’s is famous from his documentations of industry-altered landscape as the impact of the expansion of human ecological footprint. With series of photograph, Edward Burtinsky has successfully changed or distorts the word landscape to include artificial landscape and human footprint of the human race made of many manufactured goods. His works combine a sense of beauty as well as tragic for one to see