Jacob Riis was a Danish American social documentary photographer. He was born in Denmark, May 3rd of 1849 and he died here in the U.S, in Massachusetts, on May 26th of 1914. He was also a social reformer and journalist. He used his journalist and photographic talents to help the impoverished in New York City, he is know for that.
He is one of the first photographers who adopt the flash in photography. While he was living in New York, he experienced the poverty and he became a police reporter.
In his pictures there appear the bad living conditions of poor people of that time, he took those kind of photos because he wanted to show those bad conditions to the middle and upper classes.
His pictures are kind of hard, because there appear poor people living and sleeping in the streets, kids that don't have anything to play with and they have to take care of their siblings and try to survive...they are sad.
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