BURTYNSKY: OIL

Lo sfruttamento delle risorse terrestri ed il conseguente inquinamento della nostra Madre Terra è perfettamente documentato nelle immagini di Edward Burtynsky, che pone davanti ai nostri occhi la necessità di un vero sviluppo sostenibile, sempre se vogliamo avere un futuro per i nostri figli.

SOCAR Oil Fields #6, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006. © Edward Burtynsky/Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

Edward Burtynsky: Oil consists of a series of large format color images made over the last 12 years. Burtynsky’s obsession with oil began in 1997, when he identified oil as a key building block of the last century—politically, economically and socially—on a global scale. He has tracked this controversial, valuable and increasingly scarce resource from extraction to production to consumption. The far reaching scope of the project has taken him from oil fields to expressways, from Western Canada to Los Angeles to the Middle East.

SOCAR Oil Fields #3, Baku, Azerbaijan 2006. © Edward Burtynsky/Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

SOCAR Oil Fields #1a & #1b, Baku, Azerbaijan 2006. © Edward Burtynsky/Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

Oil Refineries #23, Oakville, Ontario 1999. © Edward Burtynsky/Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

Silver Lake Operations #12, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007. © Edward Burtynsky/Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York/Nicholas Metivier 

Gallery, Toronto

Silver Lake Operations #1, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007. © Edward Burtynsky/Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

VW Lot #2a & #2b, Shanghai, China, 2005. © Edward Burtynsky/Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

Oil Fields #13, Taft, California, USA 2002. © Edward Burtynsky/Courtesy of Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York/Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

All images © Edward Burtynsky