Today we’d like to introduce you to Devin Hamilton.
Hi Devin, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Honestly, I feel like my journey as an artist corresponds to a lot of other artists’ stories. At a younger age, I ended up finding an older camera in my mother’s house and instantly fell in love with it, love at first sight vibes for sure. I didn’t want to blindly start pursuing this newfound thing so I fully emerged myself in all things photography related. I feel you must become a student to become a master in all things, so I studied photography, and I feel like it just made me love and appreciate art as this existential element that breathes in our daily lives constantly.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
Hasn’t been a smooth road and I say that with love for the struggle. You know J Cole says it perfectly “its beauty in the struggle” in his Love Yourz single. I definitely didn’t come to that realization until later in my artistry, but to truly understand that and feel that you have to look deeply within yourself and the world around you. I would say I struggle most with this urge to put out work and to not put out work because I’m not feeling it. And that can be because I don’t like this piece, or I just don’t feel like posting my work. As I get older, I start to dislike social media just a little bit more than last year and I know it has its benefits, but it also has become too required in the daily lives of humans. And I feel we lost that human connection we used to have with art and all things implanted into our DNA. Nonetheless, I believe struggle is one of those things embedded into the human experience, and the key to overcoming it is to find positive outlets mine has always been God and that’s why I can see beauty in the struggle.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I specialize in photography, but I present myself as an artist since I navigate through many mediums of art. I also create through graphic design and write poetry at my leisure. I am known for my photography work which I would say explores the black experience intimately and poetically. I feel a lot of my work is the embodiment of my poetry; my photos take on this soft vulnerable look at black people being black in a world that hasn’t treated them so fairly and kindly. And some work displays rage against the voiceless. I’m most proud of the unknown the things I haven’t created yet but will create in the later future. I believe what sets me apart from others is really just ME not to sound arrogant or anything. But I believe God created us differently so we would be able to show a different perspective to people, and in my case, with photos or any art, I choose that only I could forge because it is my perspective of what I see or feel.
Do you have recommendations for books, apps, blogs, etc?
I like “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin.
Recently I’ve been reading “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi.
Shoutout to the creators of Tumblr its still lit.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://devinhamilton8.myportfolio.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/by.devin/
Image Credits
Photo of me: Dunston Darius (IG __.dsad.__)
