This portrait taken by Khalik Allah works so well for me primarily because of the array of colors he has captured in his frame, specifically in the background with the various lights blurred out. These lights also create a horizontal axis across the composition which helps to ground the picture, and subsequently grounds the viewer's eye. It creates a place to enter the image and leads the eye into the diagonal of the man's head. The positioning of the head is the crux of the image allowing the light to fall onto his forehead and subtly drift down his nose and cheeks, highlighting the sharpness of quality in the details of his skin.
While this photograph is not exactly a "landscape" image, it is the most appropriate picture I could find of Khalik Allah. I feel like this picture is pretty self explanatory as to its functions on an artistic level. He lines his frame up to create a degree of symmetry near the middle of the frame, while it may not be exact, it doesn't necessarily need to be because it is understood that the city is inherently different on either side of the street. The main attributing factor to its success is the placement of the vanishing point, with the pitch black sky filling about the top third of the frame, creating the illusion that the lights lead to all that there is (in the world/city/etc.).
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