Thomas Holton is an American born photographer from Manhattan, New York. His heritage is that he is half-Chinese, his American, New-York based photographer father married his mother after he met her in Taiwan, and then he moved his family back to New York. Although Holton grew up in Manhattan, his grandparents lived in Chinatown. He was half-Chinese, but he still felt like a visitor in Chinatown. This is what motivated his series "The Lams of Ludlow Street".
Holton moved in with a Chinese family that lived in Chinatown called the Lams. He soon became a part of the household as he photographed the family going ahead with their daily lives. He would even accompany the family on trips. With these photographs, he was documenting their lives. All of the pictures are candid, and this gives them a reality that wouldn't exist if they would've been posed. These photographs perfectly capture the essense of the subkects as well as their relationship to each other and their surroundings.
What really drew me to these photographs is how intimate they are. This is what really gives them meaning. Its like I'm getting a secret look into this family's lives behind closed doors.
No comments:
Post a Comment