by Devin Allen
On April 18, 2015, the city of Baltimore erupted in mass protests in response to the brutal murder of Freddie Gray by police. Devin Allen was there, and his iconic photos of the Baltimore uprising became a viral sensation.
In these stunning photographs, Allen documents the uprising as he strives to capture the life of his city and the people who live there. Each photo reveals the personality, beauty, and spirit of Baltimore and its people, as his camera complicates popular ideas about the "ghetto."
Allen's camera finds hope and beauty doing battle against a system that sows desperation and fear, and above all, resistance, to the unrelenting pressures of racism and poverty in a twenty-first-century American city.
A Beautiful Ghetto
ISBN-13: 9781608467594
ISBN-10: 1608467597
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publish Date: September 2017
Page Count: 124
Dimensions: 10 x 9 x 0.5 inchesBooks > Photography > Individual Photographers - General
Books > Photography > Subjects & Themes - Street Photography
Books > Photography > PhotojournalismDevin Allen, a Baltimore native, is only the third amateur photographer to have their photograph appear on the cover of Time. His work has also been featured in New York Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, BBC, NBC News, Aperture Magazine, and "Yahoo!." Allen's photographs have been exhi