VELD focuses on the annual spring growing season in Flevoland, The Netherlands, the largest tulip area in the region. Flying in an open door helicopter at 250-500 feet, Burdeny had to time the shoot precisely to capture the fields at peak bloom.

The artist’s first color abstract landscapes – DRIFT of 2000-2006, a series of moving and still photographic images collected during travels through Canada, France, Japan, England, Belgium and the USA, catalogued the shifting light and color of the world’s oceans and shorelines into horizontal “bands”. 16 years later, Burdeny welcomes the viewer to experience the incredible color abstraction of these ordered fields from afar and then the extreme details of the flower blooms revealed at nose length.

Dating Back to 1935, The Moscow and St. Petersburg Metro was one of the USSR’s most extravagant architectural projects. Under Stalin’s direction, the Architects were directed to introduce the concept of “svet” or light and “sveltloe budushchee” or “A Bright Future”. With their polished marble walls, high vaulted ceilings and ornate chandeliers, the Metro stations have been likened to an “artificial underground sun”.This underground  paradise was to remind its riders that Stalin and his party had delivered something substantial to the people in return for their sacrifices.

Japan is primarily Buddhist, but what defines it even more than religion is it’s rigorous and distinct sense of aesthetics, one that is built from the celebration of seasonality dating back nearly 2000 years. The weather has informed every aspect Japan from its art, to poetry and cuisine. To be in Japan is to be in a constant recognition and engagement of the seasons. The cherry blossom would be its most poignant example. The flower isn’t just a symbol of Japan – it is THE symbol of Japan. Nowhere on earth is a piece of nature so intrinsic to a country’s identity than here. Japan without the cherry blossom would be inconceivable – like our alphabet without vowels.

Architectural images from the small towns of the Canadian prairie.

Vancouver-based photographer, David Burdeny has photographed an immense collection of architecture and landscapes across the globe, including Europe, Asia, Russia, Antarctica, Greenland, Brazil, Japan and Cuba. Ironically, he has never created a Canadian series. Due to travel restrictions of the current pandemic, Burdeny felt like a return to the prairie roots of his upbringing. This landscape of big sky and wide open spaces influenced Burdeny’s continuous use of the horizon line to set his compositions. Coupled with his love of architecture and the minimalism created by the flat light and snow covered ground, Burdeny tells a visual tale of nostalgia using the poetic beauty of snow.

“Drift” is a series of moving and still photographic images collected during travels through Canada, France, Japan, England, Belgium and the USA. These photographs catalogue the shifting light and color of the world’s oceans and shorelines. Using a variety of analogue and digital mediums that closely parallel racetrack photo finish technology, the images invert conventional photographic motion/time relationships. My intention is to present motion rendered still, and still rendered in motion, graphically revealing the underlying rhythms and patterns of the physical world while tracing our navigation through it.