Portrait session with Mal Devisa.

I had the great privilege of photographing eclectic artist, singer/songwriter, musician, poet and producer, Mal Devisa on a particularly warm winter day in Amherst, Massachusetts.

“Mal Devisa is the songwriting, liberation, and poetry project of multifarious artist Deja Carr. Starting in 2014 and breaking through with 2016’s Kiid, Mal Devisa’s work spans a selfmade spectrum of sound from gravitic, soulful rock to soliloquy to unabashed hip hop. Although known for her unmistakable, smoldering voice and loop-based, bass-forward compositions, Carr’s talents also extend to reaches of spoken word and production, paralleled by aspirations to start both a youth foundation and Afrobeat orchestra. Such boundless inspiration is a central facet of Mal Devisa’s work, whose sonically and narratively unrestrained passages teem with empathy and liberatory visions for a better world.” -From this Beggars Music release.

Find Mal on Bandcamp.

Images shot on digital and film.