Biography
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Dickerson first attended Howard University where he studied architecture, before relocating to New York to attend New York University's film program at the Tisch School of the Arts, where he would meet fellow student Spike Lee.
His first feature film as Director of Photography was also Spike Lee's first film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), filmed while both of them were still students.
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