History Images - Sze Tsung Leong

Sze Tsung Leong has been photographing the dramatic urban changes that have transformed the cities of China-revealing a process that ranges from the destruction of traditional neighborhoods, which once formed the unique identities of China's cities, to the mass construction of new urban environments. Photographed with a large-format view camera in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing, Pingyao, and Xiamen, these highly detailed images portray the immense scale of an urban upheaval overwhelming the minute scale of the individual.