Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis was best known for his work with poverty. After experiencing it himself, he took casual photos and wrote about it. He is well known for his casual photos and his flash photography. After living the life of a poor New Yorker, Riis became a police reporter writing about the poor conditions and the hardship that the poor people of New York had to face. 

This is what is meant by casual photography. No posing, no makeup or hair crew, just casual. Riis used photos like these to help the poor make people understand their hardships that they go through every day. This boy is young, and seeing this photo people will pity him, and hopefully help. 

The second photo is much like the first but caught me in a different way. When young boys are piled up together trying to sleep in a corner of a stone wall, you think they're cold. You think that all they have is each other, and that could be exactly what Riis wanted to officials to see in this image.

The third image is a different point of view for poverty. Other than the boys only having each other, this image shows how many people are in need. There's obviously an abundance of people living on this floor of this warehouse, and they all need help. Riis was probably trying to show that there is too many.