The Disturbing Beauty of Oil Spills and Industrial Waste
The oil deposits of Alberta, Canada yield 2.3 million barrels of oil each day. Enormous machines extract 26 million tons of iron ore from mines in Kiruna, Sweden each year, while still more enormous machines pull 314 million pounds of copper from the ground near Hurly, New Mexico. As staggering as these statistics are, they’re nothing compared to the impact of these massive operations on the landscape.
New York photographer J. Henry Fair showcases the human impact of industries like fracking, mining, and fertilizer production with the sweeping aerials he’s collected in Industrial Scars: The Hidden Costs of Consumption. “I wanted to make pictures that told a story about an economic system that wasn’t functioning,” he says.
(Source: bobbycaputo)
