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b. 1985 -

Photographer and documentary filmmaker, Khalik Allah was born to a Jamaican mother and an Iranian father in New Haven, New York in 1985. At the age of 19, Allah was already producing the documentary film Popa Wu: A 5% Story which took four years to make He is known for short films such as Black Mother (2010), which depicts people on the island of Jamaica and Antonyms of Beauty (2013), whose subject is a homeless man in Haiti and one feature Field Niggas (2015) (the title is derived from a remark by Malcolm X). Allah was also one of the cinematographers for Beyoncé's Lemonade. In 2010, Allah also took up still photography focusing on the inhabitants of the notorious Harlem corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City.