Lu Guang (1961) was born in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. Between 1993 and 1995, he took classes at the Fine Arts Academy of Tsinghua University (formerly the Central Academy of Crafts and Fine Arts) in Beijing.
Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China resulting from the rapid growth of the economy since 2005, focusing on environmental pollution and the problem of schistosomiasis (bilharzia). Over the last three decades, peoples' living standards have constantly been on the rise in the country. At the same time, industrial pollution has brought serious consequences for public health and for the environment at large.
A freelance photographer since 1993, Lu Guang has developed major documentary projects in China, all at his own initiative, focusing on some of the most significant social, health, and environmental issues facing his country today. His photographic work includes stories on gold diggers, local coal miners, the SARS epidemic, drug addiction along the Sino-Burmese border, Aids villages in Henan Province, the environmental impact of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, industrial pollution and the medical effects of schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
His work on the Aids villages won First Prize in the Contemporary Issues category in the 2004 World Press Photo contest. His picture story on drug addicts in southern Yunnan was exhibited at Visa pour l'Image that same year. In 2005, he became the first photographer from China to be invited by the US Department of State as a visiting scholar.
In 2008, Lu Guang won the Henri Nannan Prize in Photography in Germany; in 2009 he was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, and in 2010 he won a National Geographic Photography Grant.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Lu Guang. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China resulting from the rapid growth of the economy since 2005, focusing on environmental pollution and the problem of schistosomiasis (bilharzia). Over the last three decades, peoples' living standards have constantly been on the rise in the country. At the same time, industrial pollution has brought serious consequences for public health and for the environment at large.
A freelance photographer since 1993, Lu Guang has developed major documentary projects in China, all at his own initiative, focusing on some of the most significant social, health, and environmental issues facing his country today. His photographic work includes stories on gold diggers, local coal miners, the SARS epidemic, drug addiction along the Sino-Burmese border, Aids villages in Henan Province, the environmental impact of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, industrial pollution and the medical effects of schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
His work on the Aids villages won First Prize in the Contemporary Issues category in the 2004 World Press Photo contest. His picture story on drug addicts in southern Yunnan was exhibited at Visa pour l'Image that same year. In 2005, he became the first photographer from China to be invited by the US Department of State as a visiting scholar.
In 2008, Lu Guang won the Henri Nannan Prize in Photography in Germany; in 2009 he was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, and in 2010 he won a National Geographic Photography Grant.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Lu Guang. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
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| Mr Lu Guang |
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| A family of five children. They had emigrated from the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to Inner Mongolia to find work in the Heilonggui industrial district. |
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| Baotou Steel Plant discharging waste, Inner Mongolia |
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| Pollution in Hainan, the industrial district of Wuhai City, in Inner Mongolia |
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| Rivers and ponds in Guiyu Town in Guangdong Province were severely polluted |
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| High Pollution Industry Wuhai Inner Mongolia |
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| Lasengmiao traditional center of Tibetan medicine now affected by polluting industries Wuhai Inner Mongolia |
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| Shizhuishan Industrial Park Ningxia |
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| Wastewater flowing into the sea from a chemical factory in the Touzeng Coastal Chemical Industrial Park near Binhai City, Jiangsu Province |
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| Disabled orphans adopted by charitable farmers Shanxi |
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| Dalian Oil spill Liaoning |
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| Denim processing village Xintang in Zengcheng city Guangdong |
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| Grainless corn affected by heavy metal contaminatio - Jinjiling Jiahe Hunan |
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| Lead poisoning in children due to pollution Jiahe Jinjilin Hunan |
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| Tianjin’s North Canal and Ziya River, a tributary of the Hai River, where the river joins the sea. Rubbish piles high in severely polluted water |
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| Zhuzhou Industrial Park Hunan |
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| Coal mining left Hulun Buir Grassland pockmarked by sinkholes Inner Mongolia |
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| Holigola Power Plant and Industrial Park Inner Mongolia |
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| Industrial waste and garbage that was dumped on Inner Mongolia grassland |
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| Maoergou Coal Mine in Hequ Shanxi |
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| Steel Mills Tangshan Hebei |
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| Wujiatai villagers protest against environmental violations by Baode ioen-pit mining Xinzhou Shanxi |
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