Edward Burtynsky’s haunting new photography exhibit captures the beauty and devastation of oil on our planet.
Edward Burtynsky: Oil is showing at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery in New York. “When I first started photographing industry, it was out of a sense of awe at what we as a species were up to,” Burtynsky writes. “Our achievements became a source of infinite possibilities. But time goes on, and that flush of wonder began to turn. The car that I drove cross-country began to represent not only freedom, but also something much more conflicted. I began to think about oil itself: as both the source of energy that makes everything possible, and as a source of dread, for its ongoing endangerment of our habitat.”
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York.
