Join APA | DC on December 7th as we host An Evening With Photographer Devin Allen to chat about his life, work, and current book release, No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, at The Potter's House in Washington D.C. Doors open at 6:30PM and the presentation will be from 7PM-8PM with a book signing following until 8:30PM.
Tickets are $10 for APA members, $35/non-members. You can add a book to your ticket for an additional $30 or if you cannot attend, you can still buy a singed book for $30 plus shipping. Tickets are limited to 50 people, and books are limited to 30.
About Devin Allen:
Baltimore native Devin Allen is a self-taught artist who gained national attention when his photograph of the Baltimore Uprising was published on the cover of Time magazine in May 2015, making him only the third amateur photographer to have his work featured in the publication. Following the untimely deaths of George Floyd, Tony McDade, and Breonna Taylor, his photograph from a Black Trans Lives Matter protest was published on the cover of Time Magazine in June 2020 .In 2017, he was named the first fellow of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship and was nominated for a NAACP Image Award as a debut author for his book, A Beautiful Ghetto (Haymarket Books, September 2017). In 2020, he was named an ambassador for Leica Camera AG — an international, premium manufacturer of cameras and sports optics. His photographs have been published in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Aperture; and are also in the permanent collections of the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C., the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is the founder of Through Their Eyes, a youth photography educational program, and recipient of an award from The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture for dynamic leadership in the Arts and Activism. His new book, No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, is scheduled to be released in Fall 2022 under the Legacy Lit imprint of Hachette Book Group.