(Image: Edward Burtynsky. Courtesy Nicholas Metivier, Toronto/Flowers, London)
For over 10 years photographer has been making images of all aspects of the oil industry: extraction and refining, the city of Detroit, transport and motor culture, and what happens when oil’s associated artefacts – large and small – reach the end of their useful life. The resulting collection of large-format photographs reveals how much we rely on this finite resource to fuel our modern lives. Currently on show at the newly redeveloped in London, Burtynsky’s Oil exhibition will tour other venues into 2013. Caroline Morley
See gallery: “Art in oils: Photos show grandeur of our petroleum age“
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