Originally Posted by
Jeff Donald
Of the thousands of people that have photographed the landmarks, how many have organized the images into a show almost the same as another (Leong) photographer's? How many copied the artist's statement? Leong only contacted a lawyer after his publsiher went to a gallery show in Vancouver and found almost the entire show was a copy of his work, including his artist statement. What are the odd's of putting a show together of almost all the same images? Sorry, but too many similarities for me.
It's one thing to stand near the same location of another photographer and produce similar, if not nearly identical images. But to put together a gallery exhibit of so many similar images is an issue in my mind. Others seem to feel the same way because Burdeny's gallery in Calgary cancelled a future exhibit and removed some images from the galleries web site.