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July 14, 2025

e-flux Criticism review of Baxter Street CCNY exhibit:

June 20, 2025

NY Times Gallery Review:

“In 2003, Thomas Holton was looking for people to photograph in New York’s Chinatown, as a way of connecting with his mother’s Chinese heritage. Through a nonprofit organization, he met the Lams — an encounter that would reshape his life. As he began shooting the family of five, he grew close to them. Twenty-two years later, he’s still taking their pictures.

This exhibition, “The Lams of Ludlow Street,” features 57 images arranged roughly chronologically, in a kind of timeline. The progression follows the subjects as they undergo quintessential life experiences, including leaving for college and getting divorced.

The apartment where Holton first met the Lams — just a few blocks down Ludlow Street from the gallery — is the locus of much activity. This could have become a stereotype: An immigrant family crammed into a tiny tenement. But Holton allowed the Lams to become the protagonists of their own story. They often gaze forthrightly into the camera with looks that fall somewhere between content, resigned and knowing. In a photo titled “Conversation” (2005), the father, Steven, has a stare that is utterly magnetic.

And Holton has a keen eye for composition. His images are carefully circumscribed arrangements of faces, limbs, beds and other objects; at a certain point, all the photographs start to feel like permutations of one another, with constantly shifting but interlocking elements, as if they were pieces in a never-ending puzzle. It’s an apt metaphor for what the project captures: the loving and fraught interdependence of family.”

June 11, 2025

Forbes review of Baxter Street CCNY exhibit

Forbes

June 4 - August 13, 2025

"The Lams of Ludlow Street”

Baxter Street Camera Club of NY

Mid-career Exhibition

Baxter Street Camera Club

July - September, 2024

“The Lams of Ludlow Street”

2024 Photoville Festival

Photoville 2024