Edward Burtynsky is a photographer that essentially, depicts the human influence on various facets of the natural world inhabiting earth. This image, in particular, is apart of a series of oil spill photographs in the Gulf of Mexico that occurred in the summer of 2010. The set of oil spills as a whole shows the destructive nature that humans impose on their habitat but in very strange ways these images also illustrate the twisted beauty that exists in the viewers mind when viewing these photographs. Not only do these images convey ironic and fascinating ideas within the mind of the viewer but they also convey the causes and effects involved with our existence in the natural world, especially this particular image.
This image not only illustrates the effects of human life on the eco system of the Earth, it also depicts these human effects on a scale of epic proportions. The riptide of oil across the ocean scape almost mirrors a fracture in the natural world. The image depicts the human species as organisms that create a destructive space among the eco system. The rich blacks of the oil that reside in the image are contrasted against the clean blue of the ocean water, in order to reveal the impact of our existence on this planet. Burtynsky is a masterful artist that portrays the realities of the world in a visceral yet beautiful ways and all of his images create a unique portfolio on the human existence among plane Earth's ecosystem.
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