Eliot Allen is an urban planner and occasional photographer living in Portland Oregon, where he first worked in the 1970s as a photographer's assistant at Photo-Art Studios. His images of Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. from the 70s through 2000 are in 35mm film, and 35mm digital since 2000. A handful since 2017 are mobile phone images. 

Eliot is a member of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California, and Blue Sky in Portland. His work has been exhibited at Blue Sky and the Black Box Gallery, and reproduced by the Jones Soda Company.