Dorothea Lange ‘approached a hungry and desperate mother as if she was drawn by a magnet’ when she was driving north through San Louis Obispo county six years after the Dust Bowl she encountered the woman in a migrant workers campsite which was still effected by this tragedy.

The children looking away represent the strength that a mother needs to shelter her children from the outside world, however Florence ‘the migrant mothers’ facial expressions show how Dust Bowl migrants would look at the damage it caused their surroundings.

This image sets an emotive feeling of sadness as it is in a black and white colour scheme and the photo was taken to portray the hunger, poverty and helplessness the average American endured during the the dust bowl in 1930.

This image was taken with a high shutter speed as it shows the motion of her face as it expresses her emotions toward her surroundings and a lower ISO as the reflection on her face shows that the weather was probably sunny allowing for the highlights to stand out.