The multi-prizewinning Chinese artist Lu Guang will be exhibiting, through July 30, a documental photographic selection in Madrid, in the framework of PhotoEspaña International Festival. The exhibition, titled Out of Sight, counted on the curatorship of Dong Binfeng and includes works from the series that lead Guang to win the Eugene Smith for Humanistic Photography scholarship from New York, with the title Pollution in China.
The artist offers in these snapshots an aesthetics vision of the most shocking scenes on pollution, an ironic reference to the governmental lack of attention on this matter. China has gained momentum in international markets due to the positioning of different products, but it hasn’t been able stop the impact of this economic growth in nature. Out of Sight is designed to insist on this alarm, taking into account that, in China, photojournalism and documental photography are considered disciplines that put together the field of research and photographic creation, which must be used by the author with marked ethical sense.
Lu started carrying out this project with his own savings, selecting the “scenes” with the help of friends from different spots of the Chinese geography, who called him when they observed signs of pollution. He’s interested in the effect caused by these problems on farmers, that don’t feel the economic boost and complain about it to municipal governments, usually without receiving answers. He was born in Zhejiangprovince and “found” the photography when he was 20 years old.He studied at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and ever since he’s worked as freelance photographer. He’s been given the National Photography Award in China and the World Press Photo Award twice (editions 47 and 54), in recognition won in 2003 with his pictures of farmers in Henan province, China, who had been infected with HIV after selling their blood. His work is essentially a reflection on the most significant problems caused by the fast modernization process in China.
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