For the past six years photographer and artist Louis Helbig has been photographing one of the world’s most controversial and largest industrial projects on earth, the oil/tar sands mining operation in the western Canadian province of Alberta.
Shot from his airplane, the photographs not only document the vastness of the operations, but sometimes almost seem abstract , as in his photo “Rainbow Lava”.
After a number of exhibitions of the photographs, Helbig is now about to publish 200 of these photos, along with articles by supporters and opponents of the bitumen sands project in a book called “Beautiful Destruction”.
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda spoke to Louis Helbig about the book, and the decision six years ago to start this photo project.
ListenMore information:
Beautiful Destruction website – www.beautifuldestruction.ca
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