Souls Against the Concrete

A typical Khalik Allah street portrait “transcends place and time,” said Isabel Flower in Bookforum. His new book collects photographs all taken at night at the intersection of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City, but he makes his individual subjects appear more indelible than their circumstances. We see evidence of homelessness, drug or alcohol abuse, and police activity, yet the photographs “somehow contain the overlapping realities of multiple worlds.”