Sanjay Bhattacharya is an eminent artist, who is both a celebrated painter and photographer. His paintings tell a story in themselves. They are undeniably realistic, almost photographic in their recording of detail and therefore mesmeric in effect. He had been influenced by the works of Rembrandt and Dali. Bhattacharya also drew heavily on the style of Bikash Bhattacharya and other great artists of Bengal, like Ganesh Pyne.