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Lu Guang’s photos have disclosed the sides of China that its government isn’t keen on talking about: drug addicts, HIV patients, environmental problems, and so on. This time, nonetheless, the award-winning photographer has himself become the center of a tale. His spouse Xu Xiaoli claims she hasn’t heard from her husband since the 3rd of November.
On 23 rd October, Guang flew to Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region, where he had planned to attend some photography occurrences. Later, he was to fly to Sichuan to convene his friend Mr Chen to participate in a charity event. But Mr Chen was unable to find or contact the photographer.
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When Mr Chen questioned Guang’s wife about his whereabouts, she had nothing. Investigating developments in the situation, Ms Xu contacted the spouse of the person who had invited her husband to Xinjiang. She was told both Mr. Lu and the host had been taken away by national protection. Neighbourhood officers from Zhejiang province, Mr Lu’s hometown, afterward confirmed this.
( Worker in Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia. April 10, 2005. Image credits: Lu Guang )
” He has been lost for more than 20 days”, said his wife.” As his most direct own family members, I have not received any a written notice of his arrest ,” Ms Xu said on Twitter.” I are systematically contacted Xinjiang police but be impossible to get through. It is our 20 th bridal anniversary[ next week ]. We should be celebrating it together. I can only hope for his safe return.”
( A heavy truck carrying coal and lime drives away, making dust to pilot and harming the nearby residents. Image credits: Lu Guang )
According to the BBC, Xinjiang has become notorious for its tight security controls, heavy surveillance and police presence, tackling what they describe as developing radicalism among the ethnic Uighur Muslim community. The government is sensitive to criticism and has detained reporters who were investigating negative stories about China in the past.
( Eleven-year-old Xu Li of Hutsou is diagnosed with bone cancer. Image credits: Lu Guang )
” The world in China is you never know if you’re going to get into trouble because there are no written governs ,” the photographer said in an interview last year.
( Children likewise live in the industrial territory. China is now the world’s second-largest economy. Its economic growth has ingested lots of energy and generated abundance of contamination. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( On 16 July 2010, the pipeline of the Newport Oil Wharf of Dalian Bay exploded, transmitting lots of petroleum into the sea. Many fishing ships were assigned to clean up the petroleum contamination for 8,150 days. Image credits: Lu Guang )
The photographer won at the 2004 World Press Photo competitionfor his exposure of” AIDS villages”, where it is 678 people get infected by hiv HIV after selling their blood. Out of 3,000 people, 678 have contracted HIV and 200 have died.
Image credits: Lu Guang
( A girl carrying her seriously ill grandson implores the sky to prevent the demon of pain returning. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( Disabled orphans will be approved by philanthropic farmers. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( Children with cerebral palsy licks milk powder off a bunk to feed. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( Laseng Temple has an over 200 -year-old history, which includes the study of Mongolian medications. It was earnestly polluted by the surrounding mills, so little pilgrims go there now. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( Many factories have been moved from the country’s east to its central and western places. Employees work in the dust. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( The Baotou Steel plant dumps mineral processing waste into the tailings dam. Image credits: Lu Guang )
Image credits: Lu Guang
( The chemical industrial park of Yanwei Port in the city of Lianyungang dumps sewage in the high seas. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( In the jeans-producing village of Xintang Town, in Guangdong, proletarians gain the stone for grinding the denim every morning. Image credits: Lu Guang )
Image credits: Lu Guang
( A wife cares for her dying partner. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( Qi Guihua, held here by her husband, fell ill when she returned to the village from Beijing to celebrate the Spring Festival. She died two hours after this photograph was taken. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( Families such as this one “ve sold” almost everything valuable in their home responding to medical expenses. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( A young girl warms her hands in winter. Her father is infected with HIV and still cares for five children and his elderly mothers. Image credits: Lu Guang )
( Two girlfriends prepare for the burial of their six-year-old friend, who died from AIDS. Image credits: Lu Guang )
Cedric Alviani, the director of Reporters Without Borders’ East Asia bureau, called on China to disclose where Lu is and to” guaranty journalists’ freedom of movement and security, including in Xinjiang Province .” It has not answered yet.
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