Aleskerov Sanan was born in 1956 in Baku, Azerbaijan on a joint of western and eastern cultures. He graduated from the Baku University, faculty of journalism.

He worked in different areas of photography - the scientific and applied photography, as photojournalist, as well as doing aerial photography and laboratory processing of aerospace materials. In creative photography prefers documentary-artistic understanding of the image.

Sanan Aleskerov took part in more than 50 exhibitions around the word. He has held six personal exhibitions. His works were exhibited at Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2013.