Sze tsung leong biography of alberta

The wide-format photographs of Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong (b. 1970; Mexico City, Mexico) challenge the conventions of landscape photography, drawing out striking planes of color and formal purity from myriad locations across the globe.

The series Horizons is the artist’s vast and unique picture of the world.

Composed of broad, encompassing photographs of this planet’s diverse terrains, this series is connected by a common horizon line to form a continuous landscape that suggests an unfurled, and potentially limitless, view of the globe’s surface.

Collectively, these images expand our range of vision by transcending familiar boundaries and forming unexpected relationships: Kenya’s open savannah extends into the tidal basins of northern France, a desert development in California continues as a pasture in Flanders, while the salt flats of Bolivia expand into Japan’s Ise Bay.

An extension of Horizons, Cities is an ongoing serie