When photographer Robert van Waarden heard about Transcanada’s Energy
East project—a tar sands pipeline that, if built, would be the longest
such pipeline in the world and would exceed the capacity of Keystone XL
by about 30 percent—he did what he knew how to do: he took pictures.
Along the Pipeline can be seen as an attempt to bring excluded voices back into the debate.
Over the course of several months, van Waarden drove all 2,800 miles
of the proposed pipeline route across Canada, from Hardisty, Alberta, to
the eastern terminus at St. John, New Brunswick. Using an old 4x5 film
camera from the early ’70s—the kind where you put a cloth over your
head—he made portraits of the people he met on the way, and recorded
their words. The result was
Along the Pipeline,
a collective portrait of more than 70 indigenous people, farmers,
fishermen, artists, and business owners. He wanted to know how they felt
about the pipeline, the environment, and Canada’s economic future. He
spent time in their homes, camped in their backyards, cooked with them
in their kitchens..... (map at site)
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