Tag: David Burdeny

Did David Burdeny copy Sze Tsung Leong's photographs? – latimes.com

Feb 28, 2010

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Trent

in Copyright, Ethics

Last month, the New York-based photographer Sze Tsung Leong was on location in La Paz, Bolivia, when he received a phone message from his New York gallerist, Yossi Milo. It had come to Milo’s attention that a Canadian photographer was exhibiting a series of works in Vancouver that bore a striking similarity to an ongoing…
PDNPulse: Copycat or Not, Part II: A Case of Nothing New Under the Sun?

Feb 17, 2010

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Trent

in Ethics

Yesterday we posted a story about the similarities between a series of images called “Sacred & Secular” by Vancouver photographer David Burdeny, and a series called “Horizons” shot earlier by Sze Tsung Leong. Leong has reportedly challenged Burdeny for copying. Burdeny denies it, saying the similarities arose because he happened to shoot from some of…