Oil. The photographs show how essential oil has become as a raw material in today's world.
Oil. For more than ten years now, the well-known Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky (1955) has been travelling all over the world in order to document the extraction, processing, distribution and use of oil. The photographs show how essential oil has become as a raw material in today's world. Just how vulnerable this world has moreover become is made painfully clear in these photographs as well: increasing pollution, declining reserves and rising costs.