Silver Lake Operations #15 (Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007) – one of Burtynsky’s industrial landscapes in Hasted Hunt Kraeutler show via Edward Burtynsky Studio

Edward Burtynsky: Oil has opened at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler on October 1st to compliment the concurrent show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibits showcase the profound work of a socially conscious Canadian photographer who has dedicated his career to documenting the changing landscape of our planet. “Oil” is series that encompasses the various stages in life of the controversial substance – petroleum, from its extraction from the depths of the Earth’s deposits to human widespread consumption to possible depletion. Burtynsky’s epic landscapes and personal efforts to bring a discussion on sustainability to the public eye were a subject of “Manufactured Landscapes” shown at Sundance Film Festival in 2007.  The show runs until November 28th, 2009.

Edward Burtynsky: Oil from Corcoran Gallery of Art on Vimeo.

Related links:
Edward Burtynsky Studio
Oil Exhibition [Hasted Hunt Kraeutler]
Burtynsky Profile [TED]
Burtynsky’s Fuel for Thought [Washington Post]
Oil Exhibition at Corcocan Gallery [Foreign Policy]
Eco Documentaries – Manufactured Landscapes: The Green [Sundance Channel]
Artist of the Month [Slate]
Framing Global Capitalism [The TYEE]
China: Photographs and Audio commentary [Lens Culture]

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Jubilee Operations #1 (2007) by Edward Burtynsky, via Flowers East

Australian Landscapes by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, now on view at Flowers East in London, captures various landscapes of Australian mines. They document iron ore operations at Mount Whaleback, salt mining in the Pilbara regionm the Kalgoorlie super pit, and various open cut nikel mines in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in Burtynsky’s work. “I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on. To make these ideas visible I search for subjects that are rich in detail and scale yet open in their meaning,” he says. Burtynsky has explored China’s Three Gorges Dam Project, Italy’s marble quarries, and the open-pit copper mining procedures in Western Australia that appear in these photographs.

Edward Burtynsky: Australian Landscapes
Flowers East
82 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DP
through February 9, 2009
Exhibition Page: Edward Burtynsky: Australian Landscapes

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