A new book by the Baltimore-based photographer Devin Allen confronts readers with the reality of how little has changed since the civil rights movement.
Protesters honor George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade in front of a police station in Baltimore, Md., in 2020.Protesters honor George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade in front of a police station in Baltimore, Md., in 2020.Devin Allen got his first camera in 2013 — a Canon that his grandmother had purchased for him on credit from Best Buy.
That spawned an interest in the history of photography, particularly the contributions of Black photographers, that led Allen to study the work of the late Gordon Parks, who said"I chose my camera as a weapon against all the things I dislike about America — poverty, racism, discrimination." Photography proved to be life-changing for Allen, who had felt powerless growing up in Baltimore and seeing his community struggle with many of the same socio-economic injustices that Parks had turned his camera on in the middle of the 20th century. As a young man, Allen saw how educational inequality, gentrification, violence, drugs, poverty and police brutality hurt his neighbors. He also lost several close friends to murder.
"I lived in this kind of false world where, like, 'this is it — I can't change anything.' ... But, when I started to unpack those things, I became an artist, and the art form gave me my voice. I started understanding that I do have a platform to make change," Allen said. A 2015 protest in downtown Baltimore, Md., over the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody.A 2015 protest in downtown Baltimore, Md., over the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody.
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