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AMARC #5, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tuscon, Arizona, USA, 2006 by Edward Burtynsky<a href="http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/Introduction/Works_Intro/Oil_Intro/Oil_Intro.html">Edward Burtynsky’s</a> oil exhibition celebrates a decade of work chronicling the production, distribution, and multiple uses of this valuable energy source and much debated topic. Displaying sights of enormous refineries, aerial views of oil fields, and landscapes of motor production, the photographs present a dramatic view of the various facets of oil. <a href="http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/">The Canadian photographer </a>has travelled extensively across the globe collecting these sensitizing and beautiful observations.1
Alberta Oil Sands #6, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007 by Edward BurtynskyBurtynsky captures these images with intense clarity and breathtaking depth of field.2
SOCAR Oil Fields #6, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006 by Edward BurtynskyThrough these images Burtynsky not only reveals the seldom seen side of oil production, but documents the existing effects of oil.3
Oil Fields #22, Cold Lake Production Project, Cold Lake, Alb by Edward BurtynskyHis depictions of landscapes shaped by its extraction are exhibited alongside the sprawling evidence of its manufactured produce.4
Recycling #2, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2001 by Edward BurtynskyThe photographs presents a modern-day “lifecycle” of the fuel that continues to shape the political and physical world.5
VW Lot #1, Houston, Texas, USA, 2004 by Edward BurtynskyFollowing on from his previous works he continues to magnify extraordinary landscapes and their multiple uses.6
Highway #1, Intersection 105 & 110, Los Angeles, California by Edward BurtynskyOil originally opened in 2009 but has made it’s way to Nevada Museum of Art where it opens next week.7
