This image is from the series Water by Edward Burtynsky. Focusing on water as essential to our survival, the project takes us over gouged landscapes across the world. It captures the ominous colours and biomorphic shapes of fractal patterned delta regions, rigid and rectilinear stepwells, massive circular pivot irrigation plots, aquaculture, and social, cultural and ritual gatherings.

Edward Burtynsky (b.1955) is regarded as one of the world's most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of humans on the planet. His imagery explores the collective impact human civilisation is having on the surface of the planet – an inspection of the man-made systems imposed onto natural landscapes. His photographs are included in the collections of over 60 major museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Modern in London. Burtynsky has received numerous awards during the course of his career, most recently a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship in 2020.