1. I think that the type of Thomas Holton’s photograph is reflecting a group of people’s lives in America.
2. Thomas Holton try to convey a message about how though of the environment of the new immigrant living in this country.
3. The photograph created the scenes of the immirgrant’s daily life and emphasize their living enrivonment.
4. The photograph use the contrast between the light and shadow that create an intensive emphasis.
5. The very first thing that captured my eyes is the most contrast part. A character or an object that has a big color contrast with the background can be the first place I looked at. My eyes will also flow from the biggest object to the smallest object.
6. When I spend more time on those pictures, I found out that the photographer try to stand out the feeling of how the kids already get used to the enrivonment.
7. The photograph give me a feeling of sorrow, oppressive and somehow hopeful. I may think that the kids are still the hope to make the family better future, and as parents they work so hard to provide their family.
8. “Varanasi Junction” is the other Holton’s photograph, they just alike because they are both about the how the living enrivonment of lower class of Asian people and express by taking photo of thier daily live.
While a few of the photos use high contrast, particularly to two on the stairs, many of these images are bright overall, high key-meaning most of the tones are light- in fact. Also, many of the photos have a very shallow space, the two doors, the family photo on the cabinet, the shoes against the wall. Even when Holton takes a picture on the roof, it is into the light and we get no sense of the city stretching out. This world is a claustrophobic one but not a sad dark place. These formal qualities create the mix of oppression and hope that you mention.