Light, Sweet, Crude is an ongoing series that began in 2007. Photographic realism is used to depict the dilapidation and emptiness of abandoned gas stations to emphasize the inevitable failure of the current system. Fossil fuels are not a renewable resource, and their consumption endangers the entire planet. These desolate structures are evidence of the environmental impact that already exists in our communities. Once viewed as familiar places that served a vital function, they are now toxic sites that represent future. Their existence is just one indication of the need to raise awareness of the urgent need for change
These photographs were taken in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama a little over a month before the beginning of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.