Rowell, Steve

Steve Rowell has traveled to Alberta, Canada, photographing the Athabasca tar sands, the largest expanse of heavy crude oil deposit in the world at 50,000 square miles and a leading exporter to refineries in the United States. In his video, he maps the transport of toxic substances in pipelines and surveys the power centers of Koch Industries and the brothers’ private residences. This piece was commissioned for the exhibition Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy.