Child Labor Portrait Inspiration

 

Inspiration:

Lewis Hines

In 1908, Lewis Hine felt so strongly about the devastating effects of child labour that he quit working as a New York City school teacher to become an investigative photographer for the National Child Labour Committee. Hine spent the next 10 years traveling through New England, the South and the Mid-West, photographing children at work in mills, coal mines and factories. The resulting photographs, proof to the public that child labour was thriving, helped change American labour laws.