Sze Tsung Leong’s series, Horizons, is an on going series of photographs from locations around the world. Each image is beautiful alone, but when seen together, one beside another, they take on new life.
Viewed in a continuous line, the images suggest an unfurled view of the surface of the globe. This view, however, does not necessarily correlate with conventional perceptions of proximity and distance, as places in these images that are seemingly unrelated or unconnected may find themselves adjoined. According to Leong, “the distances separating near from far, familiar from foreign, inside from outside, iconic from quotidian, extraordinary from mundane, picturesque from unsettling, are never constant.” The relationships and gradations between these opposites that are suggested by the photographs—and the fact that the images can be rearranged to form different landscapes and visual sequences—are meant to reflect the complex and perpetually transforming relationships between regions, cultures, and nations that give form to the contemporary world and that shape the experiences of each individual viewer.
– from artist’s statement
Sangam II, Allahabad
Canale della Giudecca I, Venezia
North Greenwich, London
Rio Tejo
Seine II
Baotou I, Inner Mongolia
Amman
The format of this blog does not do these photographs justice. You can see much more photography on Sze Tsung Leong’s website.
