Tag: Lu Guang
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Showcase: Infernal Landscapes – Lens Blog
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.…
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Lu Guang Wins National Geographic Photography Grant
Link: “His work is a testament to the power of how a single photographer, armed with a vision, can really [communicate] to the rest of the world,” says Kurt Mutchler, Executive Editor of photography at National Geographic.
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China Now Lu Guang – The Eye of Photography
Link: Since the reforms, Chinese society has changed. The technical and scientific standards have been raised, and the quality of life has improved overall. But the speed and magnitude of the changes have created new problems, the worst of which is pollution.
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Renowned Chinese Photojournalist Lu Guang Goes Missing in China
Renowned Chinese Photojournalist Lu Guang Goes Missing in China One of the most famous Chinese photojournalists has gone missing in China, and there are reports that he was arrested by government security officers. Lu via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2018/11/27/renowned-chinese-photojournalist-lu-guang-goes-missing-in-china/ Documentary photographer Mohammad Baghal Asghari traveled to the Kerman province during ten days of Iranian New Year, creating…
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Photojournalist Lu Guang Granted ‘Bail-Like’ Release in China | PDNPulse
Link: Photojournalist Lu Guang has been released after nearly a year of detention in China, Voice of America has reported. The news service says the photographer’s wife, Xu Xiaoli, reported via Twitter on Monday (September 9) that her husband “has been home for several months.”
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Police in China Finally Confirm Lu Guang’s Arrest | PDNPulse
Police in China Finally Confirm Lu Guang’s Arrest | PDNPulse Silent for weeks about the arrest of photographer Lu Guang, Chinese officials are still mum about the charges against him. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/12/police-in-china-finally-confirm-lu-guangs-arrest.html Police in China have for the first time informed photojournalist Lu Guang’s family of his arrest last month, The New York Times…
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Opinion | A Photographer Goes Missing in China – The New York Times
Opinion | A Photographer Goes Missing in China Lu Guang’s images have shown the world China’s dark side. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/lu-guang-photographer-missing-china.html Lu Guang is an internationally acclaimed photographer from China, and he has been my friend for more than 15 years. I’m proud that the agency I co-founded represents and distributes his work. We first met…
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Photographer Lu Guang Detained in China, and Missing for Weeks | PDNPulse
Photographer Lu Guang Detained in China, and Missing for Weeks | PDNPulse The reason for his arrest is unknown, and his wife has launched a social media campaign to pressure Chinese officials for information. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/11/photographer-lu-guang-detained-in-china-and-missing-for-weeks.html Photojournalist Lu Guang, who has won numerous international awards for his coverage of pressing health and environmental issues…
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Lu Guang’s blood wood: photographs of exploited African forest – The Eye of Photography
[contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/11/24/article/159973973/lu-guangs-blood-wood-photographs-of-exploited-african-forest/”] Lu Guang’s blood wood: photographs of exploited African forest – The Eye of Photography The rise of China has been accompanied by a voracious demand for raw materials such as oil and minerals, as it has brought widespread prosperity to the Chinese mass, a boom in consumption and in real estate development has…
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Lu Guang, fighter against industrial development – The Eye of Photography
[contentcards url=”http://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/09/08/article/159964327/lu-guang-combattant-de-la-pollution-du-developpement-industriel/”] Lu Guang, fighter against industrial development – The Eye of Photography But do we know the disastrous consequences hidden behind this prosperity that Lu Guang euphemistically calls “development”? We can always refer the history mirror back to the so-called developed countries, and that is the language of revenge often borrowed by China: “you…
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Photog Reflects on Images of Oil Spill Drowning
Firefighter Zheng Zhanhong (entering water) attempts to rescue colleagues Zhang Liang (top left) and
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L E N S C R A T C H: Lu Guang and Greenpeace
Sometimes, as photographers, it’s bearing witness to difficult subjects that makes our form of expression such a powerful tool and weapon. Lu Guang, the winner of W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China”, has been bearing witness to the huge problems from pollution that face China and the…
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Freelancer Lu Guang Wins $30K W. Eugene Smith Grant
Link: Freelancer Lu Guang Wins $30K W. Eugene Smith Grant – NPPA