A man on an old mobile phone on the Shenyang–Dalian railway line in China, 1994. Photo: Wang Fuchun
A man on an old mobile phone on the Shenyang–Dalian railway line in China, 1994. Photo: Wang Fuchun

China’s famous train photographer Wang Fuchun, whose work attracted international acclaim, has died in Beijing aged 79

  • Wang’s work won awards all over the world after he started taking pictures in the late 1970s and documented a time of major transformation
  • His photos have been exhibited all over the world, with his most famous work being Chinese on the Train, a photography book published in 2001