Ashok Meena is an Indian cinematographer, filmmaker, and educator. He works across documentary, fiction, and artists' moving image.

His films and collaborations explore people, landscape, labour, and cultural memory through long-term observation.

He founded Jal Damru Madhya, through which he develops and produces documentary and independent films.

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Ashok studied Geography (Honours) and Journalism at the University of Rajasthan, and Motion Picture Photography at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.

 

His cinematography includes Against the Tide (dir. Sarvnik Kaur), MeenRaag (dir. Suruchi Sharma), In Retreat (dir. Maisam Ali), Pushkar Puran (dir. Kamal Swaroop), Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman (dir. Nidhi Saxena), and Aunty Sudha Aunty Radha (dir. Tanuja Chandra.

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Alongside cinema, he collaborates with visual artists on moving-image works that have been presented at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and the Gropius Bau, Berlin.

 

His work has been presented at festivals including Sundance, Cannes (ACID), IDFA, Busan, Visions du Réel, Sheffield DocFest, Hot Docs, DocsBarcelona, Munich, and MAMI Mumbai. Films he has photographed have received honours including the Sundance Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking and the National Film Award (Silver Lotus).

 

He regularly teaches and mentors through film schools, universities, and workshops, including FTII, NID, IICD, Anant National University, and Nomads Film School.