15:23 22 May 2012
For over 10 years photographer Edward Burtynsky 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 Photographers' Gallery in London, Burtynsky's Oil exhibition will tour other venues into 2013. Caroline Morley
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SOCAR Oil Fields #6, Baku, Azerbaijan2006
The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) reports that it produced 8.4 million tonnes of oil in 2011.
(Image: Edward Burtynsky. Courtesy Nicholas Metivier, Toronto/Flowers, London)
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