Devin Allen

Devin Allen is an American photographer, photojournalist, and activist based in Baltimore, Maryland. He gained national attention after the Freddie Gray protests in 2015, when his documentary photograph entitled "Baltimore Uprising" was published as Time magazine's May 2015 cover photo.

Allen's photographs are held in the Smithsonian collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Career Baltimore Uprising and other projects (2015–2019) Allen gained national attention and media prominence after the 2015 protests following the death of Freddie Gray. However, Allen shared his first protest photographs a year later, following the police killing of Michael Brown, an 18-year old black-male resident of Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014.

After the death of Freddie Gray on April 12, 2015, Allen—who grew up five minutes from where the Baltimore police murdered Freddie Gray His images capturing the protests went viral The Washington Post, The New York Times ,

In 2016, Allen's photography exhibit "A Beautiful Ghetto" was held at the Gallery Slought. The book was nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Awards in the category of "Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author".

Allen was selected as the first recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship in 2017.

George Floyd protests (2020–present) After the murder of George Floyd, a Black American killed during arrest by a white police officer named Derek Chauvin, Allen attended a Baltimore protest on June 5, 2020 organized by demonstrators representing the city's Black transgender community.

Personal life Allen was born and raised in West Baltimore.