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By (author) Leong Sze Tsung
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Striking panoramic photographs coalesce to create an image of the world
A widening of our horizons: in his Horizons series, the British-American artist Sze Tsung Leong (*1970 in Mexico City) combines wide-angle photographs of landscapes from throughout the world that exhibitfundamental, formal similarities and rhythms by connecting them with a common horizon line. Unconventional juxtapositions allow the viewer to transcend distances and boundaries and to leap from the glacial lake of Jökulsárlón in Iceland to the tropical Indian Ocean, from the Israeli separation barrier to the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, from the suburbs of California to the plains of Kenya. More than ten years in the making, Horizons gives an unfurled view of the surface of the globe.Thought-provoking and witty, poignant and playful, the series is above all a cumulative reminder of the complex and perpetually transforming relations between regions, cultures, and nations that constitutethe planet we live on.
Biographical note
Charlotte Cotton has held positions including Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Head of Programming at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, Creative Director at the National Media Museum, UK and Curator of Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She is also the author of Imperfect Beauty, Then Things Went Quiet and Guy Bourdin. Pico Iyer has written for Time since 1986, and regularly writes for Harper’s Bazaar and the New York Times. Books by Iyer include The Lady and the Monk and Video Night in Kathmandu.
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Striking panoramic photographs coalesce to create an image of the world
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