Sunil Janah (17 April 1918 — 21 June 2012)[1][2] was an Indian-American[3] photojournalist and documentary photographer who worked in India in the 1940s.

[4] Sunil Janah was born on 17 April 1918 in a Bengali Mahishya family to Sarat Chandra Jana, a prominent advocate at the Calcutta High Court,[5] at Dibrugarh, Assam[6] but grew up in Kolkata.

[8] Communist politician Puran Chand Joshi urged Janah to abandon his English studies and pursue a career in photography.

[9] Noted for the beauty and technical quality of his compositions, Janah's photographs are significant in their historical content as well as their emotional connect.

[8] Janah made portraits of Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Sheikh Abdullah, Faiz, and J Krishnamurthi.