TORONTO, ON.- The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) announced Toronto-based photographer Edward Burtynsky as the recipient of the $20,000 MOCCA Award in Contemporary Art 2011. The MOCCA Award will be presented to Mr. Burtynsky at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art at a gala event on April 14, 2011. Each guest at the event will receive a limited edition work of art by Burtynsky created especially to mark the event. In naming him as the third recipient of the Award, MOCCA cited the national and international acclaim Mr. Burtynsky has received for extraordinarily unique bodies of work produced over the course of nearly three decades. Combining knowledge of photography, its history and techniques, with a sharp perceptual rigour, Burtynsky creates stunning images of the sites of some of the heaviest and most essential industrial activities in Canada and around the world. Often cinematic in scale and always spectacular i