DAVID BURDENY

David Burdeny’s photographs play with time and scale. His imagery suggests a formalized landscape where perspective scale and time momentarily become intangible.The viewer sees repeated dualities of stillness and movement, intense detail with blank atmospheric abstraction, man made objects found in ocean horizons, black and white images printed on colored paper, all reduced to present to the viewer a sublime experience.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, David Burdeny has degrees in both Interior design and a Masters in Architecture. At the age of 12, Burdeny started to photograph the prairie landscape and make his own black and white prints in a makeshift darkroom that also served as his bedroom closet. Primarily self taught, his architecture and design background greatly influences his penchant for simple exacting photographs of sky, horizon and the marks humankind leaves behind.  Burdeny chooses to photograph in poor light and near darkness. He uses unusually long exposures to see what our eyes normally cannot. Burdeny is based in Vancouver Canada and has exhibited with the Jennifer Kostuik Gallery since 2001. He has won several gold awards in international art photography competitions, the most recent being selected as International Photographer of the Year in the Nature category for Canada, revealed at the Lucie Awards Ceremony in New York City, October 2008.

Substrate Information

All of my work is shot with a Hasselblad medium format camera and 80mm lens, or a 38mm Hasselblad SWC/M on black and white, silver based 120 roll film and developed by hand in small reel tanks. Archival quality output is through a Cymbolic Sciences Lightjet 5000 printer onto Fuji Crystal Archive Photo Paper.

Aluminum- Prints are mounted on .080 gauge aluminum with acid free cold mount adhesive. Print face is protected with UV laminate. Aluminum wall cleats, signature, title, date au verso. 

Ultramount- Prints are mounted on acid free 3/16" rigid polystyrene board with acid free cold mount adhesive. Signature, title, date au verso.  

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Articles + Reviews

David Burdeny wins coveted Nature Photographer of the Year Award at the Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards.
Los, Angeles, California, 9/5/2009