Artist Statement
“The Lams of Ludlow Street” is an investigation into the life of one Chinese family living in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood. Growing up in New York City I have watched most people regard Chinatown simply as a tourist attraction and a weekend destination for dim sum and cheap counterfeit goods. While I have never lived in Chinatown, my grandparents do, and I knew that Chinatown was more than the stereotypical images seen in travel brochures and postcards. Although I am half-Chinese and have spent a considerable amount of time in Chinatown, I never experienced a bond or connection to the neighborhood or the culture; I always felt I was a visitor. At the beginning of this project, I knew I wanted to get behind closed doors and photograph more than the stereotypical images of Chinatown’s street scenes. I wanted to experience more of the daily life of Chinatown.
Thomas Holton received his MFA from The School of Visual Arts in 2005. His work has been exhibited widely, including venues such as the New York Public Library, The Museum of the City of New York, The China-Lishui International Photography Festival and Sasha Wolf Gallery. In 2005 he was one of the twenty-four photographers chosen by the Art + Commerce Festival for Emerging Photographers, and in 2006 American Photo magazine named him one of the country’s ten best Young Photographers in the United States. Additionally, The Lams of Ludlow Street was published in Aperture (2007), featured three times by The New York Times (2008, 2012 and 2016) as well as published in numerous other magazines, newspapers and websites. Kehrer Verlag published his first monograph, The Lams of Ludlow Street, in 2016. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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