Neiman ghosh satyajit ray biography

A self-taught documentary photographer of Bengali cinema and theatre, Nemai Ghosh is widely remembered for his extensive documentation of the life and work of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. He never formally trained in photography and entered the profession after a chance encounter with Ray.

He was visiting Burdwan in West Bengal, where the filmmaker was shooting for his first film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969), and took some photographs of the set on a second-hand camera. Impressed by these images, Ray asked him to join his team.

From then on, he worked as a still photographer on all of Ray’s sets till his last film, Agantuk (1991). He also worked with other celebrated Bengali directors such as Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen and Aparna Sen over the course of his career.

Known for his black and white, analog images shot almost exclusively in natural light, Ghosh did not restrict his oeuvre to still photographs taken during filming, but also captured candid moments of the actors and set members