What is left when everything is gone? In 2015, François Halard (b. 1961, French) visited late Saul Leiter’s almost empty apartment in the East Village, two years after his passing, in 2013. He took photographs of the decrepit walls, the empty closet, and of what Saul Leiter had left behind.Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American painter and photographer whose work was deeply connected to the East Village, the neighborhood he lived in for over fifty five years. His sometimes abstract, always soulful, photography constitutes a record of street scenes in both black & white and color.
François Halard somehow manages to catch the spirit of Saul Leiter, turning the pages you feel he might appear in the next spread. But the space remains beautifully empty. Except for the people present in the photographs he left behind which François Halard photographed as part of the interior.
