to write off the loan in exchange for the camera that one single moment had changed the trajectory of his lifeaparna sen and shabana azmi on the sets of satisoon after this incident he had left for an outing to rampurhat where ray was shooting for goopy gyne bagha byne what helped was the fact that rabi ghosh who was playing bagha in the film was the director of the theatre group chalachal where ghosh was a member when he reached the sets he found the unit rehearsing the famous shot of water drops falling on baghas drums in a jiffy ghosh had clicked and exhausted two rolls of candid shotsfor a rank amateur it was a huge experience to have shot ray at work ghosh had showed the photos to his friend banshi chandragupta he was rays art director and had showed them to the filmmaker extremely impressed with his angles ray had even told ghosh apni toh moshai amar angle mere diyechhen what started as a hobby soon became an assignment during the shooting of aranyer din ratri ray assigned him to take the photos from ghare baire onwards he started receiving payment for them too not just movie stills he even has a storehouse of stills from rays documentarieson sikkim on painter benode behari mukherjee and on bharatanatyam artiste balasaraswati he was also the chosen photographer for shooting the ray couple when they had modelled for a tea brand in ghoshs words the rays were the best models he ever had in his kitty also lies a rare series of some unseen romantic photos which the couple would get clicked by him on their wedding anniversary october 20thats precisely why picking his best photograph from the ray collection was as hard as choosing the favourite among his children yet there was one from the shooting of ashani sanket that he never forgot to mention it had him filing ray and cinematographer soumendu roy following babita in the sequence where she is raped in the forest ghosh had run after the trio to capture the movement and flux of the tracking shotghosh himself would reveal that the secret of his photography lay in observation and a penchant for capturing the moment at the right time for director sandip ray ghoshs photography stood out because of their spontaneity and candidness during those days when he used to work with baba many would use flash but he would rarely use flash while capturing the classic moments he saidsatyajit ray during the shooting of aranyer din ratriyet sandip wouldnt want to limit ghoshs treasure trove as just a collection of some 90000 photographs of ray he used to take a lot of care of the photos he took it wasnt that he would click a photograph and then forget all about it he was extremely methodical we should all learn archiving from him he had such arresting photographs of kolkata the world of theatre and the tribal life of bastar