Biography:
Alec Jacobson is a photographer and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, who likes to dive deep into slow-moving stories. Drawing on his studies in Anthropology, French and Arabic at Amherst College, he prefers to be the only...
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#oil and gas, alberta, canada, environment#Photography
Nov 12, 2020
"I make them from garbage," said Ludwig Piekarz who sells oil derrick birdhouses and other carvings from the side of the road in Alsike, Alberta. Like lobster traps on the East Coast or cowboys in the West, decrepit oil derricks have become Alberta vernacular