Toronto-based photographer Edward Burtynsky is on a mission to document how we all are transforming our natural world on an industrial scale, from stone to minerals, oil, transportation and silicon.
His pictures of oil-themed landscapes (‘I… 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’) from oil spills off the Gulf of Mexico, to the oil fields of California, are extraordinary.
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