Painting a legendary life

For almost a year, Li Bin, a painter from Shanghai, has buried himself in piles of books and DVDs about the life of Nelson Mandela.

Li has been engaged in an ambitious project - a 30-meter-long, 3.3-meter-high oil painting depicting the life of the anti-apartheid hero.

After paying daily attention to Mandela's declining health over the past few months, Li felt more relief than grief when he heard the news about the death of the former president of South Africa.