Audio Descriptions: Helen Levitt

A child crouches on the pavement next to the back tyre of a green car

Audio Descriptions: Helen Levitt

15 minutes
On Photography

Scroll down to listen to audio-descriptions of five photographs by Helen Levitt. The sound file is located below each photograph.

Audio descriptions produced and read by Eleanor Margolies for The Photographers' Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Helen Levitt: In the Street (15 October 2021 - 13 February 2022). 

Eleanor Margolies is a writer and audio describer. She has a background in puppetry and theatre design, with interests in ecology and the role of the senses in performance. She audio describes in museum, theatre and dance contexts, and has led architectural tours for Open House London.

Five children climb and play on the portico of a doorway on the street

A group of children stand on a street holding a large frame for a mirror with shattered glass below

An older man boards a bus in New York

Two adults, two children are seated side-by-side on the subway, all facing the camera

A child crouches on the pavement next to the back tyre of a green car