Arthur Jafa Age, Wiki, Wife and Family Facts -Love is the message, the message is Death Director

Arthur Jafa Fielder, born in 1960, in Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S., is an American video artist as well as a cinematographer. 

Arthur is well known in the industry for his works in Daughters of the Dust, Eyes Wide Shut, and Just Married.

10 Facts about Arthur Jafa

1. Arthur Jafa was born with the full name of Arthur Jafa Fielder on November 30, 1960, in Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S, making him age 60 as of 2020.
2. Likewise, Arthur Jafa was married to Julie Dash who is an American film director, writer, and producer. The two have a child named N’Zinga Dash but Arthur got divorced and is now separated from his wife.
3. The exact net worth of Arthur varies from source to source and it has increased significantly in the past years. So, his net worth is believed to be over a million dollars.
4. The 60-year-old Arthur has gotten a wiki page solely dedicated to him.
5. His both parents were educators and the family lived in a highly segregated area of that time in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
6. Growing up as a child, Arthur used to collect found images in collections that he called ‘the books’.
7. Arthur Jafa graduated from Howard University studying architecture and film. He later moving to Atlanta, Georgia.
8. His artistic practice can be directly seen in his self-portrait “LeRage” and it is also mentioned that his work was inspired by black jazz musician Miles Davis.
9. With his notable work on Daughters of the Dust, he won the ‘Best Cinematography’ Award in Sundance in 1992.
10. Recently, the infamous “Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death” was directed by Arthur Jafa. The project represents the traces of African-American identity through a spectrum of contemporary imagery in Kanye West’s hip-hop track “Ultralight Beam”. The 7-minute edited video reflects the artist’s desire of creating a cinema replicating the power and beauty of black music.