Swimmers As the only member of

As the only member of his family not involved in running the hotel

Nick Hodgson

Still surrounded by the animals and rural settings of their childhood

accompanied by the artist’s voice-over of 4 stories extracted from his memory of 1974

The Great Acceleration reveals the depth of Burtynsky’s investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes around the world

Swimmers As the only member ofI wanted to do something so absolutely different, and physical, and in a certain way, kind of ill conceived I took my camera and went underwater in a bunch of pools. And made pictures. Between 1978 and 1982, in a departure from the collaborative conceptual work that he had become known for, Larry Sultan photographed people learning to swim in public pools in San Francisco. Initially inspired by black and white documentary photographs he found in a Red