Khalik Allah
January 1, 1985 · 41 years old
Khalik Allah is a self taught filmmaker and photographer. His profoundly personal work has been described as visceral, hauntingly beautiful, penetrative and honest. Khalik’s first book of photographs, Souls Against the Concrete, will be published by University of Texas Press in 2017. His eye for dar…
Known For
3 titles
Black Mother
From red light districts to lush rain-forests, 'Black Mother' is a loving and lyrical ode to Jamaica and its people, a visual poem that is at once deeply felt love letter and ecstatic street-corner prayer.
Field Niggas
A slow-motion portraiture combined with a soundtrack of snippets of people's conversations and interviews.
I Walk on Water
In IWOW, Allah focuses on longtime muse Frenchie, a 60-something schizophrenic, homeless Haitian man, who he becomes increasingly intertwined with.