Baltimore native Devin Allen is a self-taught artist who achieved national recognition when his photog raph of the Baltimore Uprising was featured on the cover of Time magazine in May 2015\, rendering him only the third amateur photographer to have hi s work published by the magazine. Following the tragic deaths of George Fl oyd\, Tony McDade\, and Breonna Taylor\, his photograph from a Black Trans Lives Matter protest appeared on the cover of Time in June 2020.
\nAllen became the inaugural fellow of the Gordon Parks Foundation in 2017 a nd continues to serve as a dedicated ambassador. He is also a 2024-2025 Ba ldwin For The Arts Fellow.
\nHis photographs have appeared in public ations such as New York Magazine\, The New York Times\, The Washington Pos t\, i-D magazine\, and Aperture\, and have been exhibited at the Jack Shai nman Gallery\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, and The Banneker-Douglass-Tub man Museum. They are also part of the permanent collections at the Nationa l Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington\, D.C.\; th e Reginald F. Lewis Museum\; the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University\; and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
\nAn accomplish ed author\, Allen released his first book\, A Beautiful Ghetto (Haymarket Books\, 2017)\, which garnered an NAACP Image Award nomination. He later p ublished No Justice\, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Li ves Matter (Hachette Book Group\, 2022)\, winning a Nautilus Book Award.\n
Allen is a recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Pri ze\, culminating in the publication of Devin Allen: Baltimore (Steidl\, 20 25)\, which features previously unpublished work accompanied by texts from notable writers.
\nIn 2021\, he launched From Baltimore. For Baltim ore\, an apparel and footwear line in partnership with Under Armour\, whic h sold out within hours. The collaborative team\, Under Armour x DVNLLN\, reunited in 2025 to introduce their Rose Collection. He curated the Scout Art Fair\, a juried exhibition in its second year as part of Artscape\, th e largest free arts festival in the United States.
\nAllen founded T hrough Their Eyes\, a youth photography education program\, and the Maryla nd Commission on African American History and Culture&rsquo\;s award for d ynamic leadership in Arts and Activism.
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