Devyn Springer is an Atlanta-based cultural worker who works within the mediums of essay, poetry, and photography. A member of Workers World Party and social media manager for the Walter Rodney Foundation, his work focuses on deconstructing and eventually reimagining the places where structures of domination intersect with race, class, and art. Purchase his debut poetry collection Grayish-Black: poetry from the ribs, follow him on Twitter, or see his visual work on Instagram.
Bobby Rogers: A Re-Energizing of the Black Arts Movement
In 1966, Amiri Baraka wrote that Black poems, and Black art as well, should “shoot, come at you, love what you are.” It’s in this same vein of urgency and cultural importance that the work of Minneapolis-based photographer Bobby Rogers strikes you—as lightning at first, strong and electric, then as a subtle love nestled into the details. Here, Devyn Springer follows the thread between Rogers’s personal artistic practice and his recent commission photographing the jazz innovators of the Walker’s Sonic Universe Project.