Edward Burtynsky: Oil
image: edwardburtynsky.com
I'm speechless after seeing the slideshow of Ed Burtynsky's new exhibition about oil organised by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC. These images are strangely beautiful yet shocking to me. Burtynsky has traveled across the globe and explored todays landscapes of oil, from extraction and refinement to transportation and motor culture to the end of oil. He draws a rarely-seen image of the use and effects of the most critical form of energy of our time on our lives. The exhibition which shows 90 photographs and which will be traveling through 2012 explores territories formed by extraction of oil as well as cities and suburban areas affected by its use. In my eyes, Ed's work provides the very immediacy of effects which is always hard to experience on topics such as peak oil and environmental pollution.
See Ed's TED Talk:
