Louise Boyle

One of her earlier bodies of documentary work is a set of photographs of Pennsylvania coal miners she took for Survey Graphic.

[2] In 1937 she was invited to photograph the life and work of Arkansas members of the SFTU, which had been organized three years earlier by struggling tenant farmers.

Like the work of her contemporaries Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, her photographs unsparingly show the enormous difficulties faced by Southern farmers in this period, especially African Americans.

Her photos depict how southern African Americans worked together to form a collective future that would benefit everyone.

Many of her photos show African Americans picking cotton, working for unions, or just living daily life in their homes.