Behind Glory Wugang by Lampo Leong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Photographia Competition Category.

AesPhotographia· 2020

Behind Glory Wugang

by Lampo Leong

Client: University of Macau Centre for Arts and Design

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Photographia Category

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The Design

About Behind Glory Wugang

Hoc autem litteris Wugang Photographic est, in Wuhan Ferrum et Steel Company. Suffulti Russian et extruxerunt in MCMLVIII, in statu-habuerunt Wugang est maximus unus ex ferro et officinas se significavit industrialem et Sinis apud modernization in regionem suam. Autem, industria tam graves environmental pollutio. Per caperent graviter polluta est campus Wugang imagines fieri, hoc project reveals pretium pretium et a tergo consecutio oeconomica prosperitas et modernization gloria cupidi, invicem provocantes huiusmodi visores in quaero of mundus et sanus environment.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Behind Glory Wugang victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Behind Glory Wugang rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Behind Glory Wugang necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is a photographic documentary of Wugang, the Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. Supported by the Russian and built in 1958, the state-owned Wugang is one of the biggest and most important steel factories in China, once signifying the industrialization & modernization of the country. However, such industry causes severe environmental pollution. Through capturing the heavily polluted campus with somber images, this community project reveals the price paid and the consequence behind the glory of economic prosperity.
Dimensions & Packaging: Dimension various.
Tags: photography, documentary, abstract image, environmental health, pollution contral
Production Technology: Digital photography using a Canon 5DSR with a EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM lens.
Design Challenge: It is very difficult to obtain permission to take photo of this state-owned steel factory. The condition of the photo site is poor and limited, often difficult to get to the ideal places to obtain the best photographic angle.
Research: This is a photographic documentary of a steel factory. The design research points out the pollution and public health problem in the working and living environment; resulting the insights on price paid and the consequence behind the glory of modernization and economic prosperity. These images provoke the viewers into the search of a clean and healthy environment.
Inspiration: Inspired by contemporary artists such as Anselm Kiefer and Sally Mann, this environmental health and pollution control community project documents the heavily polluted and decaying factory campus of Wugang with abstract, lyrical and somewhat somber images. This group of photography points out the price paid and the consequence behind the glory of modernization and economic prosperity in China, provoking the viewers into the search of a clean and healthy working and living environment.
Project Duration: Wugang, Wuhan, China, 2019
Operation Flow: These photo documentary could be used for exhibition offline and online to make people aware of pollution and public health in the working and living environment.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Lampo Leong, 2019.
Team Members: Lampo Leong
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Lampo Leong, Behind Glory I, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Lampo Leong, Behind Glory II, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Lampo Leong, Behind Glory III, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Lampo Leong, Behind Glory IV, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Lampo Leong, Behind Glory V, 2019.