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'''Indian cinematographers''' work in a number of regional film centres: [[Chennai, India|Chennai]] for [[Tamil language|Tamil]] films, [[Mumbai]] for films in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and [[Hindi]], [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] for films in [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Kochi]] for films in [[Malayalam]], [[Kolkata]] for [[Bengali language|Bengali]] films, [[Bangalore]] for [[Kannada]] films, etc. Most Indian cinematographers are known for their work with one regional industry.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_JkAAAAMAAJ|title=Making Meaning in Indian Cinema|last=Vasudevan|first=Ravi|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-564545-3|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://indiancine.ma/texts/indiancine.ma:Encyclopedia_of_Indian_Cinema|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema}}</ref> Some cinematographers belong to various professional organisations and trade unions.<br />
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==Western India Cinematographers' Association (WICA)==<br />
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The Western India Cinematographers Association (WICA) is a society for Indian cinematographers. The society is situated at [[Mumbai]] in [[Maharashtra]]. Members of this society include the suffix WICA after their name in film credits. The organisation was formed on 2 August 1953 in Mumbai, and was presided over by a leading cinematographer of the time, [[Faredoon Irani]]; in the following month the first office bearers were chosen, including [[Nitin Bose]] as President and V. Avadhut as the Vice-President.<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=http://indiancinematographers.com/history.asp |publisher=Western India Cinematographers' Association |access-date=4 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224091500/http://indiancinematographers.com/history.asp |archive-date=24 December 2013 }}</ref> According to WICA, there are 3800 members of the organisation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wica.in/about/ | title=About &#124; Western India Cinematographers Association }}</ref><br />
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==Southern India Cinematographers Association (SICA)==<br />
The Southern India Cinematographers Association (SICA), a trade union, was founded on 27 November 1972 by [[A. Vincent]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thesica.in/history-of-sica/ |title=Archived copy |website=www.thesica.in |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214081826/http://www.thesica.in/history-of-sica/ |archive-date=14 December 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==The Indian Society of Cinematographers==<br />
The Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC) is an educational, cultural, and professional organization founded in 1995. Neither a labor union nor a guild, ISC membership is by invitation and is extended only to directors of photography and special effects experts with distinguished credits in the film industry. The society is situated at [[Thiruvananthapuram]] in [[Kerala]]. The members of this society will show a suffix, ISC with their name in film credits.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.imago.org/index.php/societies/item/131-indian-society-of-cinematographers-isc-associate.html | title=Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC) (Associate) }}</ref> [[Sunny Joseph]] is the current president of the ISC.<br />
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=== Founding members ===<br />
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*[[Anil Mehta]]<br />
*[[Ramachandra Babu]]<br />
*[[Sunny Joseph]]<br />
*[[P. C. Sreeram]]<br />
*[[Santosh Sivan]]<br />
*[[K. V. Anand]]<br />
*[[Venu (cinematographer)|Venu]]<br />
*[[Ravi K. Chandran]]<br />
*[[Madhu Ambat]]<br />
*[[P. Sukumar]]<br />
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=== Members of ISC ===<br />
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*[[Anil Mehta]]<br />
*[[Amal Neerad]]<br />
*[[Alagappan N.]] <br />
*[[C. K. Muraleedharan]]<br />
*[[Chezhiyan]]<br />
*[[Chota K. Naidu]]<br />
*[[Fowzia Fathima]]<br />
*[[Gireesh Gangadharan]]<br />
*[[Hari Nair]]<br />
*[[K. V. Anand]]<br />
*[[K. G. Jayan]]<br />
*[[K. U. Mohanan]]<br />
*[[Jomon T. John]]<br />
*[[Madhu Ambat]]<br />
*[[R. Madhi|R.Madhi]]<br />
*[[Madhu Neelakandan]]<br />
*[[Natarajan Subramaniam]]<br />
*[[Preetha Jayaraman]]<br />
*[[P. C. Sreeram]]<br />
*[[P. S. Vinod]]<br />
*[[Rajeev Ravi]]<br />
*[[Ramachandra Babu]]<br />
*[[Ravi K. Chandran]]<br />
*[[Ravi Varman]]<br />
*[[Sameer Thahir]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Members|url=https://www.theisc.in/members|access-date=2021-12-27|website=The ISC Website|language=en}}</ref><br />
*[[Santosh Sivan]]<br />
*[[Sathyan Sooryan]]<br />
*[[Shaji N. Karun]]<br />
*[[Shyju Khalid]]<br />
*[[Sunny Joseph]]<br />
*[[Venu (cinematographer)|Venu]]<br />
*[[S. R. Kathir]]<br />
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==List of Indian cinematographers==<br />
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* [[Abinandhan Ramanujam]]<br />
* [[Arjun Jena]]<br />
* [[A. Vincent]]<br />
* [[Alagappan N.]]<br />
* [[A. Vinod Bharathi]]<br />
* [[Abhik Mukhopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Ancer Thwayyib]]<br />
* [[Anil Mehta]]<br />
* [[Aravinnd Singh]]<br />
* [[Arbhindu Saaraa]]<br />
* [[Amal Neerad]]<br />
* [[Adurthi Subba Rao]] (1912-1975)<br />
* [[Ajayan Vincent]]<br />
* [[Arthur A. Wilson]]<br />
* [[Arvind Krishna (cinematographer)|Arvind Krishna]]<br />
* [[Aseem Mishra]]<br />
* [[Ashok Kumar (cinematographer)|Ashok Kumar]]<br />
* [[Ashok Mehta]] (1947- 2012),<br />
* [[Baba Azmi]]<br />
* [[Balu Mahendra]]<br />
* [[Barun Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Binod Pradhan]]<br />
* [[B. Kannan]] (1951-2020)<br />
* [[Chota K. Naidu]]<br />
* [[C. K. Muraleedharan]]<br />
* [[Debu Deodhar]] (1948 - 2010)<br />
* [[Deepak Haldankar]] (born 1947)<br />
* [[Dev Agarwal]]<br />
* [[Dilip Dutta]]<br />
* [[Fali Mistry]] (1919 - 1979)<br />
* [[Gavemic U. Ary]]<br />
* [[George C. Williams (cinematographer)|George C. Williams]]<br />
* [[Girish Gangadharan]]<br />
* [[Govind Nihalani]]<br />
* [[Hari Nair]]<br />
* [[Jaya Krishna Gummadi]]<br />
* [[Jayanan Vincent]]<br />
* [[Jeeva (director)|Jeeva]] (1963 - 2007)<br />
* [[Jomon T. John]]<br />
* [[K V Anand]] (1966-2021)<br />
* [[K. U. Mohanan]]<br />
* [[K. K. Mahajan]] (1944 – 2007)<br />
* [[K.K. Senthil Kumar]]<br />
* [[K. V. Guhan]]<br />
* [[Kamal Bose]] (1915 - 1995)<br />
* [[M J Radhakrishnan]](1958 - 2019<br />
* [[Madhu Ambat]]<br />
* [[Madhu Neelakandan]]<br />
* [[Mahesh Muthuswami]]<br />
* [[Manoj Paramahamsa]]<br />
* [[Marcus Bartley]]<br />
* [[Nirav Shah]]<br />
* [[N. K. Ekambaram]]<br />
* [[Natarajan Subramaniam]]<br />
* [[Om Prakash (Cinematographer)|Om Prakash]]<br />
* [[Pappu (cinematographer)]]<br />
* [[P. S. Nivas]]<br />
* [[P. C. Sreeram]]<br />
* [[P.G. Vinda]]<br />
* [[P. S. Vinod]]<br />
* [[Padmesh]]<br />
* [[Prasad Murella]]<br />
* [[Pratap P Nair]]<br />
* [[R. D. Rajasekhar]]<br />
* [[R. Rathnavelu]]<br />
* [[R. Madhi]]<br />
* [[R. Velappan Nair]]<br />
* [[Rajeev Ravi]]<br />
* [[Rajesh Yadav (cinematographer)|Rajesh Yadav]]<br />
* [[Rajiv Menon]]<br />
* [[Ramachandra Babu]]<br />
* [[Ramananda Sengupta]]<br />
* [[Ramji (cinematographer)|Ramji]]<br />
* [[Rasool Ellore]]<br />
* [[Ravi K. Chandran]]<br />
* [[S. Kumar (cinematographer)|S. Kumar]]<br />
* [[S. Ravi Varman]]<br />
* [[S. R. Kathir]]<br />
* [[S. Gopal Reddy]]<br />
* [[Samalabhasker]]<br />
* [[Sameer Reddy]]<br />
* [[Sameer Thahir]]<br />
* [[Sanu Varghese]]<br />
* [[Santosh Sivan]]<br />
* [[Santosh Thundiyil]]<br />
* [[Sathyan Sooryan]]<br />
* [[Satish Motling]]<br />
* [[Satheesh Kurup]]<br />
* [[Sejal Shah]]<br />
* [[Shaji Kumar]]<br />
* [[Shaji N. Karun]]<br />
* [[Shehnad Jalal]]<br />
* [[Shyam K. Naidu]]<br />
* [[Shyju Khalid]]<br />
* [[Sivakumar Vijayan]]<br />
* [[Subrata Mitra]]<br />
* [[Sudeep Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Supratim Bhol]]<br />
* [[Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti]]<br />
* [[Sunny Joseph]] <br />
* [[Theni Eswar]]<br />
* [[T. Surendra Reddy]]<br />
* [[Teja (film director)|Teja]]<br />
* [[Tirru]]<br />
* [[V. N. Reddy]] (1914 - 1991)<br />
* [[V. Gopi Krishna]]<br />
* [[V. Manikandan]]<br />
* [[Venu (cinematographer)|Venu]]<br />
* [[Velraj]]<br />
* [[Vijay Milton]]<br />
* [[Vijay C Chakravarthy]]<br />
* [[Vijay C. Kumar]]<br />
* [[Vierendrra Lalit]]<br />
* [[Vishal Sinha]]<br />
* [[Vishnu Rao]]<br />
* [[Vishnu Sarma]]<br />
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==Awards==<br />
* [[Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer]]<br />
* [[Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award (South)]]<br />
*[[SIIMA Award for Best Cinematographer (Telugu)]]<br />
* [[IIFA Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />
*[[Nandi Award for Best Cinematographer]]<br />
* [[Kerala State Film Award for Best Photography]]<br />
* [[National Film Award for Best Cinematography]]<br />
* [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography]]<br />
* [[Star Screen Awards]]<br />
* [[Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Cinema of India]]<br />
*[[Cinema of South India]]<br />
*[[Indian film directors]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.wica.in/ Official Website of WICA]<br />
* [http://www.iscindia.in/ Official Website of ISC]<br />
* [http://www.thesica.in/ Official Website of SICA]<br />
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