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memories of ray#47_nemai ghosh

’one day he asked me: why do you take so many photographs of me?’_Nemai remembers the most precious things he learned from Satyajit Ray and tells some nice anecdotes ( recorded in 1999 in Kolkata, interview in Bengali ).

memories of ray#46_nemai ghosh

’ what was Ray to me? What was he not to me! He was everything to me!’_ Nemai reflects on their close relationship…was Ray mystified through his lens? Nemai says : ‘It was Ray who made me a photographer to suit is requirements! ( recorded in 1999 in Kolkata, interview in Bengali ).

memories of ray#45_nemai ghosh

’ let it be in my memories only’_ Nemai emotionnally remembers Satyajit Ray’s death, and explains why he never went back to his house ( recorded in 1999 ion Kolkata, interview in Bengali ).

memories of ray#44_nemai ghosh

’ Satyajit Ray told the doctor: look how beautiful I am in Nemai’s photographs, who says i’m sick?_Nemai talks beautifully about his close relationship with Satyajit Ray, and about the difficult period of Ray’s sickness ( recorded in 1999 in Kolkata, interview in Bengali ).

memories of ray#43_nemai ghosh

’ i showed him a copy a my book, and he embraced me quickly’_Nemai talks about the first book he published with his photos of Satyajit Ray, ‘Satyajit Ray at 70’ ( recorded in 1999 in Kolkata,  interview in Bengali ).

memories of ray#42_nemai ghosh

’I couldn’t work with anyone else’_Nemai remembers the last shots of Ghare Baire, when Ray suffered his first heart attack, and remembers the birthday sessions: every year, he took pictures of Satyajit Ray and his wife Bijoya on their wedding’s birthday. ( recorded in 1999 in Kolkata, interview in Bengali ).

memories of ray#41_nemai ghosh

’ I used to stand at his right side’_ Nemai remembers how during the process of taking pictures of the shootings of ‘Days and nights in the forest’, ‘The Inner eye’, ‘Distant thunder’, ‘Sonar Kella’,…he became closer to Satyajit Ray. ( recorded in 1999 in Kolkata, interview in Bengali ).

memories of ray#40_nemai ghosh

memories of ray­#40_nemai ghosh_ ’when Ray told me i should go on taking photos, i blushed a lot!’_Nemai remembers his first meeting with Satyajit Ray, when he came to show him his first photographs( recorded in 1999 in Kolkata, interview in Bengali ).

 

memories of ray#39_nemai ghosh

’ I never thought of becoming a photographer’_ Nemai Ghosh, the man who took more than 90.000 photographs of Satyajit Ray, explains how he became a photographer : by accident ( recorded in Kolkata in 1999 / interview in bengali )