Edward Burtynsky - Oil

Venue details

The Photographer’s Gallery
16-18 Ramillies St
London W1F 7LW
United Kingdom
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Event details

A major solo exhibition of works by renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. His 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. A decade long survey on the subject, ‘Burtynsky: Oil’ reveals the rarely seen mechanics of the manufacture, distribution and use of one of the world’s most highly contested resources. 

Edward Burtynsky is participating in this year’s London Festival of Photography. Read about it here.