Graduated from Howard University, an Historically Black college in
Washington, DC, and later met filmmaker Spike Lee while both of them were
attending New York University's Film School.
Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 1990. He was its first African-American member.
Frequently worked as a cinematographer on many of Spike Lee's early
movies.
Taught film classes at Howard University's School of
Communications.
One of his all-time favorite movies of all time is John Huston's adaptation of Moby Dick, having seen it multiple times as a kid.