Award-winning pollution images of China break the heart – photojournalism matters

In Anyang, a city in China's Henan province, steel furnaces mark the skyline in 2008. Photo credit: Copyright Lu Guang
I’m Chinese American. My grandparents left China’s Guangdong province in the 1910s and 1930s.
These images of pollution in the Middle Kingdom from Chinese photographer Lu Guang nearly made me ill.