“The Hats & The HatNots” explores the territories of those who make up the overwhelming majority of the black diaspora in the enormous american lands. Its focus, the Hat, and all of its sub-textual trappings: legitimacy, power, honor, righteousness, the glory and resurrection.”

Good Looking Out "...is what Black People say to each other when they say, “Thank you.”  It’s a concept connected to an experience Jules had over thirty years ago. He cites a chance encounter with an upper-middle-class-looking brother working in his garden on Strivers Row in Harlem who asked him for the time.  

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter . . .”

Marching Bands breathe the soul and spirit of Africa within the modern world. They create extravagant pageants intended to inspire, educate and entertain. Culled from field trips ranging over a period of almost 30 years, the 96 images within the book, capture the bands as they engage in trash talk, swagger and colloquialisms.

Double Up tells a personal, photographic story of life inside New York City’s Gleason’s Gym in the 1980s. It is a story captured and revealed by Jules Allen, an award-winning photographer with a keen eye for nuance, texture and rhythm.

Personal and intimate collection of conversations across the African continent, culled from field trips ranging over a period of almost 30 years, the 72 images within the book, as stated by writer, Michele Wallace, in the introduction to the book, "are telling us at least one hundred very concrete things about that which we may think we already know, but don’t know nearly well enough of contemporary African cities."