These images were belatedly produced during the pandemic following the publication of a book about the photographer, Saul Leiter, who produced some wonderfully colourful images involving obscured views of people and places in New York. It made me reconsider a series of photographs taken in 2016, a few of which , hopefully, have a sense of what Saul Leiter achieved so well. This first image is my personal tribute, taken on the High Line. It seeks to make the viewer wonder what they are seeing. The behatted man by the side of the inverted ice cream cone who was present on the walkway at the time of the shot may be the answer.Eva Mendes and a shadow man on HoustonThe profile of a young Elvis walking along Houston Street in bright autumnal sunlight, in front of a large mural of the people of the city.Red sleeping bag and watching mannequins on Mercer StreetContemporary Art on West BroadwayMorning light as the traffic emerges on Delancey Street from across the distant Williamsburg Bridge.An enormous red rose stands above a lone visitor to MoMACrossing 5th Avenue as the coiled exterior of the Guggenheim Museum emerges from the shadows into late afternoon sunliight.Your life can be a masterpiece...in yellowA room full of glittering pieces at the New MuseumA fragmented reflection through the glass of a building in the Meatpacking District.Bright light and dark shadowing on Park Avenue as one looks towards the Met Life BuildingMercer Street lifeDark figures silhouetted beneath the archways near the Bethesda Fountain in Central ParkAn antique store in the Lower East SideA sunlit face of a man walking in shadows below the Williamsburg BridgeStanding with a coffee below the Stars and Stripes.During the building of Hudson YardsStarburst on Broome StreetFanelli's Cafe on Mercer Street and 6 people in autumn sunlight.On the other side of Mercer Street
Simon Allen is a street photographer, having traveled to New York, Rome, London, Manchester, Bologna, Naples and Melbourne, amongst many other major world cities, representing the real wonder of the urban environment through his photography.