Lu Guang Worker in a small smeltering factory Wuhai City Inner Mongolia 2005
Copyright: Lu Guang, Contact Press Images
Date
2005-2014
Material
Photographies
Owner
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
Description
The photo reporter Lu Guang (*1961) is concerned with the socio-economic and ecological problems of China, his home country, and shows the effects of humans on their environment. Through his work, Lu Guang produces a valuable documentation of the consequences of exploiting geo-resources and the associated environmental destruction.
More coal is mined and consumed in industrial China than in any other nation worldwide, without regard for collateral damage to the environment and population. In impressive photographs, the artist records the world of those who live and work in these industrial landscapes.
Worker in a small smeltering factory, Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia, April 2005
Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, October 2009
An open-pit in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, September 2010
Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, June 2012
Liangjiaqis open-pit coalmine in Hequ county, Shanxi province, May 2014