Oil

Edward Burtynsky
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Amsterdam | 28.11.09 > 28.02.10

EN: With his exhibition and publication on oil, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has produced a masterpiece. On the basis of monumental and highly detailed color photographs about oil, its extraction and consumption, which Burtynsky has been making since 1997, he reveals the connection between our use of oil and the effect this has on the landscape. Within this context the relationship between the culture of oil consumption and the immense infrastructure that it requires is also firmly established. Ultimately Burtynsky's photographs of the waste left behind by this industry inspires us to imagine how the world might look when this fossil fuel is depleted.