Paul Abowd
Paul Abowd is a documentary producer based in D.C. In 2015, he moved to Baltimore while finishing a film for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines series entitled “Baltimore Rising,” about the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death at the hands of police. While living in the city, he began three independent film projects that never got finished until this year. The first film follows the police helicopter through the city with his late friend, photographer Noah Scialom. The second film is a music video for a long-unreleased song by his friend Genard Barr, which forms the soundtrack to his life and work as a social worker in Sandtown. A third film follows housing rights organizer Dominic Moulden on a ritual return to his childhood home at Perkins Homes, on the eve of its demolition. In 2018, Paul finished another film for Al Jazeera called “The Gang Within,” about the criminal conspiracy by an elite police unit in Baltimore to traffic seized drugs and rob the city’s residents. Paul is a researcher for the union of hospitality workers, UNITE HERE, and the parent of a 2.5-year-old daughter.
Baltimore native Devin Allen is an international, award-winning self-taught photographer and artist who gained national attention when his photograph of the Baltimore Uprising was published on the cover of Time magazine in May 2015, making him only the third amateur photographer to have his work featured in the publication. Following the untimely deaths of George Floyd, Tony McDade, and Breonna Taylor, his photograph from a Black Trans Lives Matter protest was published on the cover of Time magazine in June 2020.
In 2017, he was named the first fellow of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award as a debut author for his book, A Beautiful Ghetto (Haymarket Books, September 2017). In 2023, he was awarded the 2023 Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize. In 2020, he was named an ambassador for Leica Camera AG—an international, premium manufacturer of cameras and sports optics.
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, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.
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. His latest book, No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, was released in 2022 under the Legacy Lit imprint of Hachette Book Group. Most recently, he captured the main imagery for the sixth and final season of the hit SHOWTIME series, The Chi.
Joseph (J.M.) Giordano
Joseph (J.M.) Giordano is an award-winning photojournalist based in Baltimore and co-host of the photojournalism podcast, 10 Frames Per Second with Molly Roberts. His book, We Used to Live At Night (Culture Crush Editions) chronicles 25 years of the city at night. His work has been featured on NPR, ProPublica, Al-Jazeera, GQ, Architectural Digest, Taste, The Observer New Review Sunday Magazine, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Washington Post, The Baltimore City Paper, i-D Magazine, Discovery Channel Inc., Rolling-Stone. His work, from the Struggle Civil Rights series is in the permanent collections at the Reginald Lewis Museum. This year he was named a finalist for the prestigious National Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Prize and will be featured in American Photography Annual 40 for his second book 13-23 (Nighted Life Press), covering a decade of Baltimore’s homicide rate. His international photographs covering the collapse of the steel industry are the subject of a solo show at the Museum of Industry in Baltimore. His next book, Trumpland (Nighted Life Press), is out now.
Location: Main Gallery
Location: Main Gallery
Location: Amalie Rothschild Gallery
