Close Encounters: Satyajit Ray through the lens of Nemai Ghosh
I first met Nemai-da sometime in 2007-08, soon after I joined HarperCollins as an editor. Over the next twelve years, the relationship developed into one of great fondness for each other. Of course, I knew I was in the presence of a legend – one who had been the still photographer of none other than Satyajit Ray. From his first engagement with Ray on the sets of Goopy Byne Bagha Byne, he had captured the master at home and on the sets, at work and at play, for over twenty years, till Ray passed away in 1992. Ray had said: ‘For close on twenty-five years, Nemai Ghosh has been photographing me in action and repose – a sort of Boswell with a camera than a pen.’
Following are some of the striking frames of Satyajit Ray composed by Nemai Ghosh's camera.
All images have been collected and collated from the public domain.