Tag: Sze Tsung Leong

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


    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 series by Leong. An image of the Canale della Giudecca in Venice? The Canadian photographer had it, and from the same perspective as Leong’s. A cracking ice floe in Iceland? An Egyptian pyramid? A Japanese shrine? He had those, too, all cropped and composed in similar fashion.

    Link: Did David Burdeny copy Sze Tsung Leong’s photographs? – latimes.com

    via: Conscientious

  • PDNPulse: Copycat or Not, Part II: A Case of Nothing New Under the Sun?


    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 the same tourist spots. And, he added, photographers–even famous ones–often mimic each other’s work. So why single out Burdeny?

    Link: PDNPulse: Copycat or Not, Part II: A Case of Nothing New Under the Sun?

  • Keeping His Eye on the Horizon (Line) – Sze Tsung Leong

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    THE soft-colored photographs of Sze Tsung Leong capture contrasting landscapes: the verdant green of Germany; the mirage of shimmering towers in Dubai; the urban geometry of Amman, Jordan; the red tiles roofs of Italy. But always the eye is drawn to the distinct line where sky meets earth.

    In Mr. Leong’s panoramic photographs of major cities and rural landscapes around the world, the horizon line consistently falls in the same place. So when his images are hung side by side — as 62 of them are now at the Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea — they create an extended landscape of ancient cities and modern metropolises, desert vistas and lush terrain.

    Check it out here.

  • Sze Tsung Leong: Horizons – The Exposure Project

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    Sze Tsung Leong’s project Horizons is meditation on the vast and varied landscapes found in disparate parts of the world. His panoramic images, although often geographically dissimilar, are linked through a continuous horizon line that when viewed as a whole creates visual and thematic relationships between differing images.

    Check it out here.