Ray in Technicolour | DAG Delhi's 'Faces and Facets: Satyajit Ray in Colour'
A new exhibition at DAG Delhi spotlights Nemai Ghosh's rarely seen colour photographs of Satyajit Ray
Nemai Ghosh first met auteur Satyajit Ray in Rampurhat, a sleepy little town in West Bengal, where he was shooting Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in 1968. Everything about Ray intrigued Ghosh, and the latter’s two rolls of black-and-white film were finished in no time. The two forged a deep friendship, and Ghosh became his photo-biographer. Ghosh’s unpublished colour photographs of Ray are like a forgotten treasure trove. A new exhibition in Delhi focuses on them.
Nemai Ghosh first met auteur Satyajit Ray in Rampurhat, a sleepy little town in West Bengal, where he was shooting Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in 1968. Everything about Ray intrigued Ghosh, and the latter’s two rolls of black-and-white film were finished in no time. The two forged a deep friendship, and Ghosh became his photo-biographer. Ghosh’s unpublished colour photographs of Ray are like a forgotten treasure trove. A new exhibition in Delhi focuses on them.
Taken over a 25-year period, Faces and Facets: Satyajit Ray in Colour presents several iconic and rare images of actors, scenes, sets and locations from the filming of Ray’s films as well as the filmmaker at work. It envisions Ray beyond the celebrated auteur the world knows him as—thinking, working, writing, sketching, directing and listening. Sensitively capturing moments of introspection and authority, it invites viewers to encounter him anew through the quiet radiance of colour.
“Nemai Ghosh’s colour photographs reveal a Satyajit Ray we rarely encounter—intimate, reflective, immersed in the rhythms of creation. Beyond documenting a cinematic giant, these images capture the atmosphere of Ray’s world: the warmth of his interiors, the intensity of his process, and the quiet moments between films,” says Ashish Anand, CEO and MD, DAG.
—The exhibition will continue at DAG, New Delhi, until July 4
