On Friday April 25th, Broad Street Studio Photo Mem Youth traveled to Pawtucket to attend mentor and teacher, Scott Lapham's opening exhibition at the Slater Mill Visitor's Center. The collaborative exhibition featured the work of Lewis Hine, who was responsible for documenting the working conditions in factories and mills in the early 1900's which became part of the records that inspired the reform of child labor conditions throughout the nation.

Hine's work was shown together with Lapham's photographs, which documented the same locations in their contemporary form, some of which have been tremendously transformed over time and others that are no longer in existence. As a whole, the show served to prove the potential behind the use of photographic art to not only document our surroundings but to bring public awareness to social issues of importance.

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