Shocking pictures of pollution in China

October 14, 2009 in New York hosted the 30th annual awards ceremony Eugene Smith Fund. Lu Guangyu of the People's Republic of China won the Grand $ 30,000 for his documentary project "Pollution in China." Lu Guangyu - freelance photographer, which began operations in 1980 as an amateur photographer. He was a factory worker, and later opened his own photo studio and advertising agency. Lu Guangyu interested in social documentary photography. At the center of his work - ordinary people from a simple society and their social problems. Many awards, which received Lu Guangyu, were at work on the social problems of Chinese society: "Gold Rush in the West", "Little Coal Pit", "Village of HIV", "Grand Canal" and others. Today we present some of the works of Lu Guangyu, where you can see the appalling pollution in China and their implications ...





Chemical waste, beached Yellow River:



Only one wall separates the village from the steel mill. The villagers have become accustomed to, and be able to "iron" Rain:



Steel mill waste flowing into the river Aniang:



Lake, littered solid waste. Guangdong Province:



Residents are protected from toxic fumes and industrial dust priventivnymi measures:



A huge number of sewer pipes, removes wastes billion people in the Yellow Sea:



Jiangsu Province. Municipal wastewater treatment plant can not cope with cleaning polluted industrial waters. Trumpet with sewage gushes out of the Yangtze River:



A large number of sewage plants and factories along the banks of the Yangtze River enters the river:



It looks like power plant in Inner Mongolia, powered by coal:



Contaminated industrial soil in the Yangtze River:



Liquid waste arising from the industrial region of Inner Mongolia in the Yellow River:



A large number of chemical wastewater enters the Yangtze River from Zhenjiang Titanium plant every day:



Metallurgical Plant Shesyan County, Hebei Province is the source of severe pollution of the environment, which greatly affects the health of local residents. The territory of the plant is constantly expanding:



In the coastal area of ​​Jiangsu Province is located more than 100 chemical plants. Part of the factory wastewater directly discharged into the sea, the other part is particularly dirty water - five "temporary lakes of dirty water." Twice a month during high tide, the water from these lakes is carried away into the sea:



Sewage flows directly into the Yangtze River near the town of Haymen:



Shanxi Province - one of the most disadvantaged in terms of the environmental area in China. It also pripadaet greatest number of congenital malformations. The photograph farming family who adopted 17 children with birth defects:



Shepherd near the Yellow River covers the nose from the stench:



15-year-old boy from the province of Gansu. He dropped out of school after second grade and with their parents came to work in the Heilongjiang province. Working in unsanitary conditions, on the day he earns 16 yuan ($ 2, 2):



Farmers husband and wife, who had just returned to my room after work in the lime mine. Industrial area Heylunguy Inner Mongolia:



The workers, most of them migrants from depressed regions, inhaling too much dust and sick in 1-2 years:



Because of the dirty water 64-year-old Wang Baosheng of Linfen had cancer since 2003. Wounds all over his body did not give him to sleep lying down, so he sleeps well.

45-year-old Sun Xiaojun from Vuganga, also became a victim of a bad environment can not move his arms and legs. Treatment does not help.



At the 66-year-old Zhao Kun from the vicinity Vuganga esophageal cancer at a later stage. Every day it hurts fever.

His countryman Wanchun Gao's wife died of cancer. He now lives in poverty.



After several hours of work in the cotton fields in Linfen peasants become similar to the miners.



Children from the contaminated area.



Seeking compensation for lost health, the victims 'subscribe' blood.



In the village Huanvey (Yunnan Province) each year from cancer kills more than 20 people. 11-year-old Xu Li suffers from bone cancer.

In the village Hehyan (Hebei Province), more than 50 people are affected by cancer.



4-year-old girl with her grandfather came to the grave of his mother, who died at age 22 of stomach cancer.



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