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Jacob A. Riis was a photographer, journalist and social activist. Riis, a Danish immigrant, arrived in New York in 1873 alone, aged 21. Soon disillusioned and angered at the country's poverty and stricken masses - mostly immigrants like himself - he began using his camera for a series of exposés on slum conditions in New York. Riis thus set out to devote his life to improving the conditions of the poor throughout the United States. Thanks to his work with the homeless, Riis befriended Theodore Roosevelt, then head of the New York Police Board of Commissioners. When Roosevelt became president, their friendship endured and was instrumental in implementing social reforms on a national and international level.

Denmark - 2001 - 59 mn - 35 mm • 1,66 - Colour and B&W

Réalisation Robert Fox Scénario Robert Fox Image Morten Bruus Editing Birger Møller Jensen Musique Poul Ernst Halberg

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