Devine calloway biography

Divine Calloway and Jess Kszos may not have crossed paths if not for basketball.

In fact, they have never met.

Not in this lifetime, anyway.

Calloway was an year-old Black scholar, a standout athlete and a recent graduate of Wilson Magnet High School when he was shot and killed in August, becoming a young victim of Rochester’s gun violence epidemic.

Kzsos was a rising senior at the Rochester Institute of Technology at the time, studying photojournalism.

She spent her weekends and evenings photographing Rochester’s basketball community, from pick-up games at Cobbs Hill to the real deal inside city school gymnasiums. She considered that community family.

So, when friends inside those basketball circles started posting Facebook tributes to Calloway ― No.

3 at Wilson ― shortly after his death, Kzsos couldn’t help but mourn alongside them for someone she had never met.

“I wanted to know who we had lost,” she