Daniel Beltrá’s Oil Spill #17, May 6, 2010, 34.6 in x 48 in.
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Daniel Beltrá’s Oil Spill #17, May 6, 2010, 34.6 in x 48 in.
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Daniel Beltrá, Oil Spill #18, May 21, 2010, 34.6 in x 48 in
A C-130 plane sprays dispersant on oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Daniel Beltrá, Oil Spill #18, May 21, 2010, 34.6 in x 48 in
A C-130 plane sprays dispersant on oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico.
A ship cuts through a band of oil on the surface of the water. A substantial layer of oily sediment stretches for dozens of miles in all directions from the wellhead, suggesting that a large amount of oil did not evaporate or dissipate, but may have instead settled to the seafloor.
So reads the caption on Daniel Beltrá’s Oil Spill #17, an aerial shot of the Gulf of Mexico that he snapped just two weeks after BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded…
