I found my spirit animal. I’ve always had an interest in industrial photography and human kind’s impact on their surroundings. The other day, Netflix recommended Manufactured Landscapes as something I would be interested in. To be honest, it is a rather slow moving documentary about this guy, Edward Burtynsky, taking photos of stuff around the world. There really isn’t much to it. He intentionally doesn’t imbue the film with any bias, nor does he try to sway your opinion. There isn’t much of a climax, maybe some heated (yet polite) exchange at a Chinese coal plant, and that only took my heart rate up a few bpm.
Truthfully, though, every photo that was shown, every location that was visited, every idea he had, reinvigorated my (incredibly lacking) interest in capturing photographs. It was a completely worthwhile eighty six minutes for me, and while your experiences may vary (especially if you like looking at photographs of emaciated models in awkward positions) it is still worth a watch.
