This gallery features the work of the three artists personally invited to participate in the Art of Energy Exhibition in February of 2021: Ed Kashi, Brook Peterson and Owen Logan. Our featured artists also gave interviews about their work. Find them on Youtube by following these links: Brook Peterson, Ed Kashi, and Owen Logan.
The Impact of Oil in the Niger Delta by Ed Kashi
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Workers subcontracted by Shell Oil Company clean up an oil spill from an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company well in Oloibiri, Niger Delta. Wellhead 14 was closed in 1977 but has been leaking for years, and in June of 2004 it finally released an oil spill of over 20,000 barrels of crude oil.
