During his many travels to the Benin and Togo regions in West Africa, Finnish photographer Perttu Saksa became fascinated by the ubiquitous street-side petrol stalls selling Kpayo, low-quality petrol distilled from crude oil originating from multinational corporations a pirated product. With a combination of documentary photographs, still lifes, and abstract works, Saksa's Dark Atlas contemplates energy as a structural component of society, localizing it as a physical element on the human level. Oil and petrol become tangible, as become the problems caused by our dependency on fossil fuel
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During his many travels to the Benin and Togo regions in West Africa, Finnish photographer Perttu Saksa became fascinated by the ubiquitous street-side petrol stalls selling Kpayo, low-quality petrol distilled from crude oil originating from multinational corporations a pirated product. With a combination of documentary photographs, still lifes, and abstract works, Saksa's Dark Atlas contemplates energy as a structural component of society, localizing it as a physical element on the human level. Oil and petrol become tangible, as become the problems caused by our dependency on fossil fuel