Showcase: Infernal Landscapes – Lens Blog

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Showcase: Infernal Landscapes

Lu Guang, a Chinese freelancer, has won this year’s $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project, “Pollution in China.”

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/showcase-65/

Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W. Eugene Smith. (It is, for instance, just about impossible to look at Slide 4 without thinking of “Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath.”)