Li Lang

1999 FiftyCrows PhotoFund Winner

About Li

Li Lang, male, born in May 1969 in Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan Province in southwest China, is currently chief photojournalist of EAGLE magazine.

I graduated from Economy Department of Shanxi Financial & Economic College with excellent scores in July 1990. Since my college life, I have constantly immerged myself in the photos of W. Eugene Smith, Joseph Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark and other famous photographers. The spirit of humanism reflected from their works engrave deep impression on my mind and trigger my inclination to record the world around by my own photos. Since then, I start my photo projects.

In 1994, I fulfilled “Village Insane Asylums” after nearly one-year investigation, and had it joined the No. 38 World Press Photo.

In 1995, I was hired as the photojournalist of EAGLE, the most excellent one in southwest China, because my photos “Chengdu in My Eyes” deeply touched the chief editor of this magazine for my individuality. In recent three years, I have, for many times, been to Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, the roof of the world, to carry out my projects and accumulated rich experiences in field photography.

In 1997, my project on Children was, for the first time, published on Photographer, Vol.32, sponsored by Mr. Juan I-Jong, a famous photographer of Taiwan.

However, I can not completely schedule my projects for the limitation of my current working condition. Now, I have to make full use of all my vocations and spare time to proceed my two projects, “A Decade of Chegdu, 1900---2000” and “Yi People in Liangshan”. Through years tempering, especially accumulating experiences from my present work and learning essences from domestic and overseas elite photographers, I have enriched my techniques of expression and improved my ability to manipulate the projects. Iam sure that I can well fulfill my projects.