Monday, May 2, 2011

Sze Tsung Leong





'Horizons' is an ongoing series of photographs that depict expansive views of a broad spectrum of environments throughout the world. The locations of the images are be distant in geography, yet the photographs are all connected by a horizon which continues in the same position from image to image. Sze Tsung Leong presents this collection in a stunning way: side by side, the images form an extended landscape composed of photographs of varied continents, cities, terrains, and situations.   
 

The photographs (below) in the series 'History Images' are of histories, in the form of cities in China, either being destroyed or created at this point in time. These 'histories' are represented by traditional buildings and neighborhoods, urban centers, and natural landscapes, in the process of being erased. These photographs symbolize the absence of histories, in the form of construction sites - sites built upon places that no one would have even known existed. 
Lastly - I  simply appreciate the starkness of Leong's work - so still and sterile. 
Suzette Martinho
 




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