Lewis Hine

Hine Lewis was a sociologist and a photographer back in the 1920s. He documented the labours and labourers of that time. Showing the hardship and the poverty of the Industrial Revolution. His work is a classic example of good documentation and his works are what sparked the change in Child Labour laws of that time. He taught in New York and he encouraged his students to use cameras and photos as a means to document work during their Sociology classes. He soon realised that the images he took could actually make a difference. Throughout his pursuit to expose child labour in factories, he was threatened with violence and death by the security of the factories. But he did not stop. He was also commissioned to photograph the building of the Empire State Building, in which he photographed the construction workers in precarious positions whilst in a basket dangling 1000 feet in the air.