This is for my city!! my people!!! I am here!!!” Allen wrote. “My mission hasn’t change 5 years later, I’m still on the ground doing what I do best! This is my life’s work and I’m just getting started. Cover images courtesy of Time magazine.Īllen posted his recent Time cover next to the cover from five years ago on his Instagram account, saying that he remains dedicated to photographing Baltimore City. That photo landed on the cover with the headline “America, 1968,” a nod to the unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., with “1968” crossed out and “2015.” Below that: “What has changed, what hasn’t.”Īllen has compiled some of his photos of the Baltimore Uprising in a 2017 book titled “A Beautiful Ghetto.” Baltimore photographer Devin Allen has landed his second cover of Time magazine, this time with a photo depicting a Black Trans Lives Matter protest on June 5 in downtown Baltimore. “I wanted to give them the same energy that I give any protest.”ĭuring the 2015 Baltimore Uprising in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, Allen photographed a protester running away from a crowd of police officers wearing face shields and carrying clubs. “When I found out about the black trans march, I wanted to come out and make sure that their voices can be heard,” Allen says. Protesters have also chanted the names of other black people who have recently been killed by police, including Breonna Taylor, a black woman police officers shot and killed while executing a no-knock warrant at her apartment in the middle of the night.Īllen told Time that he wanted to use his photos to amplify the voices of protesters at Baltimore’s demonstration for black transgender people. Five years after his photo from the Baltimore Uprising appeared on the front of Time, Baltimore photographer Devin Allen’s work is back on the magazine’s cover, now depicting one of the city’s recent protests against police brutality and racial injustice.Īllen’s new cover photo shows a protester raising a megaphone as other demonstrators lie on a downtown Baltimore street during the Black Trans Lives Matter protest on June 5.ĭemonstrators across the country have led protests in response to the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.
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