LEWIS H. HINE

Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and photographer. He was born on September 26th of 1874 and he died on November 3rd of 1940, at age of 66. He was born in Wisconsin.

He wanted to take pictures to change the child labor laws in the United States in those years. Thus, he used his camera as a tool for social reform.

When he was a teacher at a cultural school in New York City, he encouraged his students to use photography as an educational medium. After photographing to hundred of immigrants that arrived to the U.S, he realized that he could use photography as a tool for social reform.

His pictures are in black and white and in vintage effect, and because he was focusing on the child labor laws, he took pictures of all those children that were working on the streets.

The photos are sad, just thinking in what were they doing and how hard were they working being little kids make us think that those days were horrible.