Rasim Ismayilov was born on 13 July 1936 in Baku. In 1958 he began working as an assistant cameraman at the Baku Film Studio. From 1958 to 1962 he studied at the cinematography faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, after which he began working as a production cameraman at the Azerbaijanfilm studio. From 1963 to 1978 he worked as a production cameraman at the Azerbaijanfilm studio, and from 1977 he directed several feature films. He was a senior lecturer at ASUCA. He died on 5 May 2004.
