- Chen Qinggang
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Introduction to character
Chen Qinggang was born in Lian Yungang, Jiangsu Province in 1966. He graduated frome Nanjing University of Arts and he had worked for several newspaper offices. Now, he is the bureau chief of Hangzhou Daily News. He took a lot of excellent pictures mainly about people's livelihood.[1]
Representative works
“Investigation on situation of poor families in China in the late 20th century”， “Investigation on bacteriological warfare”. He won the International press photography competition gold medal in 2005 by the work "The Survived Comfort Women in China". And also won the medal in 2007 by the work "Gray space - depression“.[2]
Greatest credit
He won the Lotus racing award in 2010 by "14 : China farmers' survival report“. He lived with poor farmers in northwestern China to record their lives and took photos of them. He finally worte a book which accurately reflects farmer's poor lives. The book has become one of the most popular books in 2011.[3]
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
