Lewis Hine Quotes

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

I have always been more interested in persons than in people.