Devin Allen is a self-taught artist, born and raised in West Baltimore. Allen was awarded the first Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship in Art in 2017. That same year, he was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for his book A Beautiful Ghetto. His second book, No Justice, No Peace, was released in 2022. His photographs have been published in New York magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, i-D magazine, and Aperture, and are in the permanent collections of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, and the Studio Museum. Allen is also founder of Through Their Eyes, a youth photography educational program. He lives and works in Baltimore.