History Images by Sze Tsung Leong, including 22 photographs that show the dramatic urban changes that have transformed cities in China, are part of an ongoing exhibition "New Photography" at the High Museum in Atlanta. Leong states that “these photographs are of cites caught in the tenuous period after the end of one history and at the beginning of another history.” Photographed with a large-format view camera in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Xi’an, Fengdu and Pingyao, these highly detailed images portray the nationwide process of destroying built history and its replacement with a radically different urban reality.
Leong is, according to himself, "American and British, born Mexico City 1970. Currently lives and works in New York. " His artist statement about the History Images can be found here.
