The photographer Nemai Ghosh first met Satyajit Ray in 1968, when Ray was making his fantasy adventure Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. From then on until Ray’s final film Agantuk in 1991, Ghosh was Ray’s official photographer, capturing the master at work and at his home in Kolkata.
In Ghosh’s compendium Satyajit Ray at 70, Ray famously describes Ghosh as “a sort of Boswell working with a camera rather than a pen”. In Manik-Da: Memories of Satyajit Ray, Ghosh writes, “… wherever he went, I went. In other words, I started following him like his shadow. I was crazy about capturing him in my camera every moment.”
Ghosh died in 2020 in Kolkata at the age of 85. His treasure trove of black-and-white pictures have been widely exhibited and collected in book form. Ghosh shot images of Ray in colour too, which were acquired by the DAG art institution and published as the book Faces and Facets: Satyajit Ray in Colour in 2011.
An exhibition of the colour images will be displayed from May 9 to July 4 at Windsor Palace in Delhi. The pictures were taken between 1969, when Ray was making the documentary Sikkim, and 1991.
In an essay in Faces and Facets, Andrew Robinson, Ray’s most well-known biographer, writes that the book is “one of the fruits of Ghosh’s magnificent...
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