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bigtree

(85,992 posts) Sat Jul 7, 2018, 08:42 AM Jul 2018

Deray by Devin Allen

deray @deray12h12 hours ago
Waves. Baltimore. [📸@byDVNLLN]

____Deray McKesson is a teacher who hails from Baltimore (my neck of the woods) had been in Ferguson since the beginning of the protests. He's immediately recognizable in his blue down vest and well-known to anyone who followed events in Ferguson on Twitter, and is familiar with the Black Lives Matter Movement.

My Blackness Is Not A Weapon
by DeRay McKesson
August 21, 2014

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Deray by Devin Allen (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2018 OP

My god, what a beautiful image cyclonefence Jul 2018 #1

you must check out Devin Allen's other works bigtree Jul 2018 #2

Fucking iconic cyclonefence Jul 2018 #3

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

1. My god, what a beautiful image

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 10:48 AM

Jul 2018

Really--I gasped at the strength and sheer beauty (and I'm not talking about "handsome" or anything so shallow; this man is *beautiful* in a non-physical way that somehow comes through in the photo). This is a magnificent photograph.

bigtree

(85,992 posts)

2. you must check out Devin Allen's other works

Reply to cyclonefence (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 10:51 AM

Jul 2018

...B&W and just gorgeous.

Reminds (not so coincidentally) of Gordon Parks.

This was his debut photo:

https://twitter.com/byDVNLLN/media

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

3. Fucking iconic

Reply to bigtree (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 11:40 AM

Jul 2018

and self-taught. What a treasure this guy is. Thanks for the tip--he was totally off my radar (not that I'm into photography enough to even have a radar). The depth and richness of texture and form in his pictures is astounding.

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