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Jacob A. Riis was one of the first social reform photographers who helped expose the poverty crisis happening with European Immigration in New York City. Riis helped launch the progressive Era with his photographs

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This is one of the many photographs Riis took. many Europeans were immigrating from Europe to New York, thus there being plenty of poverty around the city. Riis

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Lewis Hine was another prominent figure in social reform photography. Hine was a ground breaking photographer that exposed the factory industry of child labor. His studies found the children were not receiving enough education time due to the hours of work in the factory. Those children would later have trouble finder higher quality and higher paying jobs. He then began to start capturing these moments so that he could stop child labor and bring exposure to it. He helped launch child labor laws in the U.S that are still active today.

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This is a picture of a child working in a place with a big machine. The machine is huge and the girl is so small and vulnerable. Hine was trying to invoke sympathy for the chidden in his photographs so that people could see what the problem with child labor was.

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Because of Lewis Hines pictures and work to abolishing child labor, new laws came about that evolved. Here is an article about a new law that was passed from his effotrs.

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Parks was a prominent photographer in the 40's to the 70's. He photographed the civil struggles for the African American community. Parks was a powerful voice who discovered that photography was one of the best ways to combat racism, discrimination, and poverty.

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Lyon traveled across the South in the midst of the Civil Rights Movements. He captured segregation injustices, police brutality, lynching's and many more subjects. He was able to help the African American community by sharing his photographs to the world.