MR PORTER’s Picture Director chooses her favourite image from Photo London.

MR PORTER has teamed up with Photo London to ask some experts from the world of photography – as well as some enthusiasts from our own team – to select their favourite image from the fair. Read about the photograph chosen by Ms Katie Morgan, Picture Director of MR PORTER, below.

Ms Morgan chooses an image from the late photographer Mr Saul Leiter, who moved to New York as a young man and became a contemporary of the great documentarians Mr Robert Frank, Mr Walker Evans and Ms Diane Arbus. Together, they were founding members of what became known as the New York School Of Photography, a movement defined by its humanistic ideals towards photography.

“Saul Leiter worked as a fashion photographer, but he’s best known for his photographs of the streets of New York and Paris in the 1940s and 1950s,” says Ms Morgan. “He must have spent an awful lot of time in cafés and bars, just watching and waiting. He had this amazing ability to create quiet, still snapshots of a city. There’s something poetic about his photographs, a little glimpse into someone’s life that almost feels as if its accidental but, of course, it can’t be.”

Photo London is at Somerset House from 17 to 20 May

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