Elements- Riis.

Describing Riis' style as a photographer is difficult to define, as his focus was photojournalism, and not just photography. He said himself that he did not take up photography as a past time, but a way to intensify the written word. He figured out that photography was a successful way to instill the kind of shock in people that he was trying for.

However, he was able to get emotion across in his photography, which meant that he had to know what he was doing. The few recurring themes that I noticed in his photography included:

1. Eye contact
2. Motion
3. Poverty, and the real world.
4. Singling out the individual in a crowd
5. Repetition (as used for depth perception)
6. Children's lives
7. Black and white
8. Inconsistant use of light (meaning that some of pictures are generally darker than others) It's interesting to notice the different uses of light after his flash photography was pioneered.