ARNAB GAYAN

Born in Nagaon, a small town in Assam, Arnab Gayan is a cinematographer shaped early by growing up amid insurgency, uncertainty, and a constant sense of systems shifting around ordinary people. That mix of instability and observation stayed with him through a Sociology degree from Delhi University and later Cinematography at the Film and Television Institute of India, where he learned to translate those instincts into craft - lighting, composition, and the politics of how a frame behaves.

Now based between Mumbai and Goa, Arnab works across commercials, music videos, documentaries, and narrative films with a style that’s part technical discipline, part traveller’s way of noticing. Films he has been part of have screened at various international film festivals. His images lean toward honesty and atmospheric detail, informed by a restless ADHD attention to how spaces- open or compressed- determine the breath of a story.

Outside of film, he works in feline infectious peritonitis and runs the FSGI Foundation & FIP Warriors® India- a non-profit dedicated to feline health research and consultancy - another space where attention, ethics, and resistance quietly intersect.