Miron Penson

Miron Maksovich Penson was born on 15 March 1928, the son of the photographer Max Penson (1893–1959). In 1952 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers (LIKI). He worked as a photographer for the magazine Saodat and, from 1953, as a photographer and cinematographer.

From 1957 to 1990 he was chief cinematographer of the Uzbekfilm studio. He shot documentary and feature films, among them Prozreniye (1965), The Death of the Black Consul (1970), Distant Close Years (1976) and The Guilt of Lieutenant Nekrasov (1985). He was named Honored Worker of Culture of Uzbekistan.

In 1999 he moved to the United States and lived in New York. He died on 29 May 2018.