国际先驱导报:灰镜头中的丑陋与良知(组图)
凭借对黑暗毫不躲闪的揭露,卢广《关注中国污染》中的每一张照片都直抵人心。
凭借对黑暗毫不躲闪的揭露,卢广《关注中国污染》中的每一张照片都直抵人心。
凭借对黑暗毫不躲闪的揭露,卢广《关注中国污染》中的每一张照片都直抵人心。
西部淘金者、吸毒者、艾滋病村、小煤窑、非典、偷猎者……卢广一如既往地用镜头诉说事实
卢广又获奖了。这次,他成为中国内地获得尤金史密斯人道主义摄影金奖的第一人。从纽约领奖回到北京后,前来采访的记者络绎不绝,卢广对此相当平静:“这似乎是2004年我获"荷赛"奖后类似情景的重现。”
也许是因为长时间的野外生活,面前的卢广看起来更像一个农民,举手投足间甚至有几丝江湖气。这么多年,他在老家开照相馆、担任当地的政协委员、云游中国深入那些别人想都想不到的地方、拍摄诸多社会边缘、结交各色朋友,渐渐地,气场就这样炼成。
再过3个小时,他又要飞到长江流域调查重庆的水污染情况。妻子徐小莉在厨房叮叮当当地收拾午饭的碗筷。她是卢广的助手、英语翻译和办公室主任。十多年来,徐小莉早已适应了丈夫几近变态的工作节奏:回家就是整理照片,整理完继续出发。
卢广家客厅中除了沙发,就是大得离谱的办公桌,上面并排放着三台电脑,嵌进墙壁的组合柜上是数不清的奖杯和书籍。卢广说,自己的下一个目标是用镜头记录污水排放对渔民生活的影响。作为摄影师,他有责任和意愿让更多的人关注全球污染和气候变化问题。
被悲惨激起的良知
19岁时,卢广爱上摄影,从此他所有的光荣和梦想都跟镜头紧密相连。在浙江金华的老家开照相馆,生意红火,后来在众人费解的目光下,自费去北京进修摄影,云游中国。他的镜头仿佛嗅觉极强的猎犬:西部淘金者、吸毒者、艾滋病村、小煤窑、非典、偷猎者——那些灰暗、破败然而郁结着时代伤痛的暗疮——都成为他的拍摄对象。长时间潜伏在某一个乡村或者沿着河流前行,这样的坚持消耗着他的生命,但也唤醒并丰富着他的良知。
许多人不明白,为何卢广总是固执地将镜头对准那些敏感而尴尬的边缘题材。“是那些在中国大地上看到和听到悲惨故事,给了我持续拍摄的勇气和动力。”卢广如是解释。
2001年10月,在河南艾滋病村上蔡村,卢广亲身经历了他一生中最重要的一天,他亲眼目睹了此前从未想像过的人间。“那跟小时候父母跟我讲三年自然灾害遍地饿殍、人人喊饿没人管的情景很相似,我拍了二十年,从来都没有这么震撼过,太残酷了。”那晚,卢广无法入眠,他在黑暗中睁大眼睛,决心用镜头告知真相。
后来,这组照片震撼了整个中国,也给卢广带来许多大奖,其中就包括摄影界最高荣誉——第47届世界新闻摄影比赛(荷赛 )金奖。
图片很激烈,但言行不激烈
获得荷赛金奖没有让卢广停手,他在意自己是否得奖,但不会满足于此。2005年,卢广开始拍摄《关注中国污染》专题。近5年来,他跨过西部、中部和东部,从黄河流域来到长江两岸,拍摄数万张记录中国污染现状的图片。其中40张被挑选出来,集结为《关注中国污染》组照,获得今年尤金史密斯人道主义摄影金奖。
他的照片不避讳痛楚和眼泪,而是将残忍的真相赤裸裸地展现出来,所以有人说,卢广的镜头是灰色的,照片中,那些伤口、畸形的身体总是毫不躲闪地逼视着人们,然而每张照片背后,都可能是一个一去不复返的生命。
一个17岁的小伙子刚刚高考完,就白血病发作走了,他父亲两年前患肝癌逝世,母亲每次都痛哭流涕,不愿意接受卢广采访;一对新婚的小夫妻,2009年3月份有了孩子,8个月的时候,卢广拍下他们的甜蜜模样。一个月后,怀孕9个月的妻子给卢广打电话说,她老公去世了;刘家湾是河南省洪河流域的一个600人口的村庄,那里的人常年饮用着被污染的地下水,每年因癌症死亡20余人。当地村长张金珠噙着泪水用颤抖的双手把2008年村里的死亡名单交给卢广……
如果说,是智慧和勇气让卢广总能进入最危险的地方,藏着照相机的普通背包和当地人装扮则是他的掩护行头,而一个“摄影爱好者”的身份和善良村民的帮忙总能帮他化险为夷。
他说他不怕,“我暴露的多为地方政府和企业的不好行为,与中央的精神并不违背,而且我也会很注意,虽然我的图片比较激烈,但是我的言行不激烈。”
每去一个地方,卢广都会拍几千张照片,有的在媒体上发表,有的留给当地村民,让他们告状、反映情况时当材料。村民把这个拿着相机的外来者当作“救”自己的人,他的镜头里有很多下跪的人。去多了,跟镜头里的村民熟起来,经常有人打电话曝料:三地交界的排污管没人管,上访又失败了,排污管过几天又开始排了,没了土地只能出去打工了……
“有一次在江苏黄海沿岸很大的一个工业园区,一家化工厂正在把两米多宽的排污管埋到不被看到的地方,却被我看到,我啪啪啪地开始拍。被他们发现,五六个人围上来,把我压倒在地,要抢我胸前挂着的相机。我不管,双手抱着相机,相机是我的生命,就是不让你拿走。后来两个武警要搜我相机,我对他们说,你是人民警察,应该保护人民,我是路过这里的摄影爱好者,又没有犯法,你凭什么拿我相机,他也不敢。领导叫这群人把我拉到管委会,其他人趁涨潮前继续埋管道,只留一个人看我。我要出去他不放,我的向导和司机就把这个人拦着,让我跑出来。”卢广出来了,但是向导被抓了,还被审问了两次。“这个人是哪个报社的?不知道。叫什么?不说。电话号码?没有。”卢广说起这些时,眼里满是感激。
一个勇士的荣耀与烦恼
这么多年,伴随着荣誉而来的也有诸多非议。例如去年因为“文字表述失实”被取消第16届中国新闻摄影“金镜头奖”参赛资格,还有人批评卢广爱摆拍,甚至有传言说为了拍摄吸毒的照片,卢广给拍摄对象塞过钱……但卢广看得坦然。他相信,人总要做成一件事,不能平平淡淡地过一生,而批评能令人保持清醒。
也有人指责他总是以“揭丑”题材到外国获奖,对此,卢广有自己的看法,“身上的疮不愿意给别人看,捂着会越捂越烂得厉害,而给别人看,是为了看看别人能否找到方法治疗和解决。揭丑是好事,是解决,是改变,本来就有的问题,捂着也没用,作为一个记者和摄影师,有责任把这个事情报道出来,让大家知道。”
清华大学美术系教授韩子善曾是卢广的老师,他把卢广看成一个勇士,凭借关注时代、社会、人生和进步的热情,成为了一名勇士。而这个勇士有时也很苦恼,苦恼于自己反映的问题总是得不到彻底解决。
艾滋村的照片获得荷赛大奖后,很多人捐钱帮助那些艾滋病孤儿;云南吸毒者的照片发表后,当地警察节制许多,不再粗暴地对待吸毒者。但是污染却不一样,暂时得到遏制,但过一段时间又会恢复,这是一个令卢广深感头痛的问题。
卢广把自己定位成一个新闻类纪实摄影师,就像尤金史密斯那样——尤金发现了日本的水污染问题,就带着妻子前去拍照,还帮当地人打官司。经历很多困难,最后官司终于打赢了,日本政府关闭了排污工厂,并制定了非常严厉的控制环境污染的法律。“现在的中国跟七八十年代的日本非常像,都面临着社会转型时期经济飞速发展带来的污染问题,如果尤金史密斯还活着,他肯定也会拍中国的水污染。”卢广希望自己的照片也能起到同样的作用,推动中国污染问题的解决。
链接卢广,1961年8月生,自由摄影师,中国摄影家协会会员,中国摄影艺术最高奖项金像奖获得者。于1980年开始从事业余摄影,当过工人、职员,后下海创办照相馆和广告公司,1993年8月自费赴北京中央工艺美术学院摄影研究生班(现为清华大学美术学院)进修学习两年。进修期间,边学习,边走南闯北创作,成为京城摄影界的一匹“黑马”。2009年10月14日,凭借《关注中国污染》专题,获得尤金史密斯人道主义摄影奖,并成为中国内地受此嘉奖的第一人。(《国际先驱导报》记者陈雪莲发自北京) (来源:国际先驱导报)
International Herald Tribune: The ugly gray lens and conscience (Photos)
Source: Xinhua
At 09:19 on November 22, 2009
With the revelations of the dark, without evasive, Lu Guang, "interested in China's pollution" in each photo is straight to the people.
With the revelations of the dark, without evasive, Lu Guang, "interested in China's pollution" in each photo is straight to the people.
With the revelations of the dark, without evasive, Lu Guang, "interested in China's pollution" in each photo is straight to the people.
Western gold, drug abusers, AIDS in villages, small coal mines, SARS, poachers ... ... Lu Guang, as always, with the camera tell the fact that
Lu-reaching and winning the. This time, he became the Mainland China, W. Eugene Smith Award for the first person to humanitarian photography. Returned to Beijing from New York to accept the award after the reporters coming to an endless stream, Lu Guang is quite calm: "It seems to be in 2004 I was" Jose "award after the recurrence of similar situations."
Perhaps it is because a long period of wild life, in front of Lu Guang look more like a farmer, gestures, even in rivers and lakes are Jisi gas. For so many years, opened his home studio, as the local CPPCC members, who wander in-depth China where people have no idea, shooting a lot of the margins of society, make colored friends, gradually, air circulation so Tempered.
In another three hours, he has to fly to Chongqing, the Yangtze River basin water pollution survey. His wife, Xu Xiaoli pack lunch in the kitchen rattled the bowl and chopsticks. She is an assistant Lu Guang, English translation and Office. 10 years, Xu Xiaoli had to adapt to her husband almost abnormal rhythm of work: home is organize your photos, organize End to proceed.
Lu Guang-house in addition to the living room sofa, that is large enough outrageous desk, stood side by side above the three computers, embedded in a wall cupboard combinations are innumerable trophies and books. Lu also said that his next target is to use the lens record discharge impact on the lives of the fishermen. As a photographer, he has the responsibility and a desire to let more people pay attention to global pollution and climate change.
Has been aroused the conscience of the tragic
19 years old, Lu Guang love of photography, from all his glory and dreams are related to the lens are closely linked. Hometown of Jinhua in Zhejiang open studio, the business on fire, and later, under the eyes of everyone hard to understand, at their own expense to go to Beijing study photography, wander China. His camera seems to smell a very strong hounds: the western gold rush, drug abusers, AIDS in villages, small coal mines, SARS, poachers - those dark, dilapidated pent-up emotion of the times, however, sad acne - have become his shooting object. A long time hidden in a particular village or along the river before the trip, so that adherence to consume his life, but also wake up and enrich his conscience.
Many people do not understand why Lu Guang always stubbornly lens align the edge of the sensitive and embarrassing subject. "Is the land of China who see and hear the tragic stories gave me the courage and motivation to continue shooting." Lu Guang explained the case.
In October 2001, Murakami caicun AIDS in Henan Province, Lu Guang personal experience of his life the most important day, he witnessed had never imagined the human. "That told me their parents with a child three years of natural disasters everywhere Piao, everyone shouting hungry nobody is very similar to the scene, I shot two decades, has never been so shocked, too cruel." That night, Lu Canton could not sleep, his eyes wide open in the darkness, determined to tell the truth of the lens.
Later, this group of photos shocked the whole of China, but also to Lu Guang brought many awards, including the photographic world and the highest honor - the 47th World Press Photo (WPP) Gold Award.
Picture is very intense, but fierce words and deeds are not
Gold did not let get Jose Lu Guang-stop, whether he cares more about his award-winning, but will not satisfy this. In 2005, Lu Guang began taking pictures of "attention to China's pollution" theme. The past five years, he crossed the western, central and eastern parts, from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, shooting tens of thousands of Zhang record the status of China's pollution picture. Of which 40 were selected out of the assembly is "interested in China's pollution" group photo of Eugene Smith for this year's Humanitarian Photography Award.
His picture did not care about the pain and tears, but the cruel truth about naked to show up, so some people say, Lu wide lens is gray, photographs, those wounds, deformities of the body is always not dodge to watch intently the people are However, behind each photo is likely to be a thing of the past life.
A 17-year-old young man had just finished college entrance examination on the onset of leukemia is gone, his father died two years ago, suffering from liver cancer, the mother burst into tears each time, unwilling to accept Lu Guang interviews; a newly married husband and wife, 2009 3 With the month of the child, 8 months old, Lu Guang photographed their sweet appearance. A month later, 9 months pregnant wife to Lu Guang called to say her husband died; liujiawan Honghe River in Henan Province, a village of 600 people, where annual consumption of people of being contaminated groundwater, cancer deaths every year more than 20 people. Local village chief Chang Kim shaking hands with tears in the 2008 death of the village to the list of Lu Guang ... ...
If we say that is the wisdom and courage to let Lu Guang always access to the most dangerous place, hidden cameras, and locals dress up the ordinary backpack is his cover of the first row, while a "photo enthusiasts" identity and kindness of villagers to help the overall help, he saved the day.
He said he is not afraid, "I exposed more of the bad behavior of local governments and enterprises, and is not contrary to the spirit of the Central, but I would very much attention, although I picture more intense, but my words and deeds are not violent."
Each went to a place, Lu Guang will shoot thousands of photos, some published in the media, and some left to local villagers so that they can complain, reflecting the situation when the material. The villagers holding the camera this outsider as a "save" his own people, his lens, there are many people who kneel. Go to more, with the lens of villagers cooked up, has often been called Pu Liu: Three places at the junction of Sewer nobody, petitioners again failed, and sewage pipes in a few days began to row, and not only out of the land employees of the ... ...
"One time in Jiangsu Province along the Yellow Sea, a large industrial park, a chemical plant are bringing more than two meters wide, sewage pipes buried in a place not to be seen, but was I saw, I began making Papa Pa. Be They found that 56 individuals came up to me overwhelming in the way, trying to grab the camera hanging from my chest. I do not care, his hands holding the camera, the camera is my life, that is, will not let you take away. Later, two People's Armed Police To search my camera, I told them that you are the people's police, it should protect the people, I was passing here to photography enthusiasts, but also did not break the law, how can you take my camera, he would never dare. the leadership of these people have called the I pulled the CMC, while others continue to buried pipelines before high tide, leaving only one look at me. I want to go out and hold him, my guide and the driver put this person Lan Zhao, so I ran out. "Lu Guang came out, but the wizard was arrested, was also interrogated twice. "This person is what newspaper? Do not know. Name? Not use it. Phone number? Not." Lu Guang talking about them, the eyes full of gratitude.
A warrior's honor and disturbances
For so many years, along with the honor also comes a lot of criticism. Example, last year because "the textual representation of the false" was canceled the 16th China News Photography "Golden Lens Award" qualified, it was also widely criticized Lu Ai-placed shot, and even rumors that drug use in order to shoot photos, Lu Guang Guo Cyprus to the subject of money ... Lu Guang-see ... but frankly. He believed that people always want to do one thing, does not always pan out to over a lifetime, while critics can people stay sober.
It was also accused him of always "muckraking," subject to foreign awards, which, Lu Guang has its own views, "the body sore unwilling to let other people see the more cover their clutching his will get worse the more rotten, while others see , is to see if other people can find ways to treat and resolve. muckraking is a good thing to solve, is to change, there are inherent problems, clutching useless, as a reporter and photographer, has the duty to report this matter just to let everyone know. "
Tsinghua University professor in the Department of Fine Arts HAN Zi Lu Guang Shan was a teacher, he Lu Guang as a warrior, with attention to age, social, life and progress, enthusiasm, becoming a warrior. And this warrior is sometimes very distressed, distressed in their own problems reflected not always completely resolved.
AIDS to obtain photos of the village Jose prize, many people donate money to help those who are AIDS orphans; pictures of drug users in Yunnan Province after the release of a number of local police restraint is no longer the discourteous treatment of drug addicts. But the pollution is not the same, temporarily halted but will resume over time, this is a way to make Lu Guang deep headache.
Lu Guang-positioning itself as a news-documentary photographer, just like W. Eugene Smith did - Eugene found in Japan's water pollution problems, his wife went to take pictures, but also to help local court. Experienced many difficulties, the last case was finally won, the Japanese government closed the sewage plant, and developed a very strict control of environmental pollution laws. "Now the Chinese with the Japanese very much like the seventies and eighties, are faced with the social transition brought about rapid economic development of the pollution problems, if Eugene Smith is still alive, he certainly would shoot the water pollution in China." Lu Guang hope your photos can also play a similar role in promoting China's pollution problems.
Links Lu Guang, August 1961 born freelance photographer, member of China Photographers Association, China's highest award for Photographic Art Award winners. Started in 1980, amateur photography, worked as workers, employees, founded after the sea studio and advertising company, in August 1993 at their own expense to go to Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts Photography postgraduate courses (now the Art Institute of Tsinghua University) to study two-year study. During the study, study, travel extensively while writing, photography became the capital of a "dark horse." October 14, 2009, by virtue of "concern of China's pollution", the access of humanitarian photographer W. Eugene Smith Award, and became the first awards in the Mainland of China were affected by this. ( "International Herald Tribune" reporter Xue-Lian Chen a dispatch from Beijing) (Source: International Herald Tribune)
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