Lu Guang

Lu Guang (; Traditional: 盧廣; born 1961) is a Chinese independent photojournalist. His work consists of large documentary projects on social, environmental, and economic issues, exposing the lives of "people on the margins of Chinese society: coal miners, drug addicts, HIV patients."

He has received three World Press Photo awards, the Henri Nannen Prize for photojournalism, the W. Eugene Smith Grant, a photography grant from the National Geographic, and the Prince Claus Award.

Lu is based in New York City, the first Chinese photographer to be invited by the U.S. State Department as a visiting scholar, and Beijing. In early November 2018, whilst travelling in Xinjiang, he was taken away by state security agents. He was released in 2019.

Life and work Lu was born in 1961 in the city of Yongkang in the Zhejiang province of China. He lives in New York. Because of his reporting on social issues, Lu has faced attempts to stop his work.

Lu is based in New York City, A restrictive security regime with re-education camps for the predominantly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs and Kazakhs is in place in the region. and Human Rights Watch has called on it to "immediately confirm and clarify" his "whereabouts and well-being".

Awards 2004: First Prize, World Press Photo, Contemporary Issues category, for a story about Henan province peasants who had been infected with HIV after selling their blood. 2008: Henri Nannen Prize for photojournalism from Gruner + Jahr. 2009: $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for his project Pollution in China. 2010: Photography grant from National Geographic to support a project documenting pollution in China and its impact on people's lives. 2011: Third Prize, World Press Photo, Spot News category. 2013: Prince Claus Award. 2015: Third Prize, World Press Photo, Long-Term Projects category for his project Development and Pollution in China.

Exhibitions 2017: Development and Pollution, Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France