Join Devin Allen at ICP for a celebration and launch of his new book, No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, which chronicles the artist’s experiences documenting the Black Lives Matter movement over the last six years. Allen will be joined by New York Times Photo Editor Brent Lewis for a conversation in the ICP library ahead of a book signing in the ICP Café and shop.
This is a hybrid event. In-person tickets are free with museum admission, online tickets are free with suggested donation. In-person and online tickets are non-interchangeable.
Devin Allen is a self-taught artist, born and raised in west Baltimore. He gained national attention when his photograph of the Baltimore Uprising was published on the cover of Time Magazine in May 2015—only the third time the work of an amateur photographer had been featured. Five years later, after the death of George Floyd, Tony McDade, and Breonna Taylor, his photograph from a BlackTrans Lives Matter protest was published on the cover of Time in June 2020. He is winner of the 2017 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship. Also in 2017, he was nominated for an NAACP Image Award as a debut author for his book A Beautiful Ghetto. 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 in Baltimore, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Jule Collins Smith Museum at Auburn University. 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. He lives in Baltimore.
Brent Lewis is a Photo Editor based out of New York City, co-founder of Diversify.Photo and from the greatest city in the world—Chicago. South Side, to be exact. Brent is a photo editor at The New York Times working on the Home Page and breaking news desk.
Brent was a Photo Editor at The Washington Post. Formerly, he was the Senior Photo Editor of ESPN’s The Undefeated, where he drove the visual language of the website that is based around the intersection of sports, race, and culture. Before joining the turning his life over to photo editing, he was a staff photojournalist with stints at The Denver Post, The Rockford Register Star and the Chillicothe Gazette. Through the years his photos have been used by the Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, Associated Press, Forbes, and Yahoo! News.
