In Calcutta for the Camarena Academy Photography Awards And Exhibition recently, Rai spoke with us about topics ranging from Mother Teresa and Satyajit Ray to selfies and Instagram. How can one use the mobile phone camera — that’s the most commonly used camera nowadays — to shoot imaginatively? When I met Mother (Teresa) for the first time, I went click, click, click, click, click, click. I had told him — he was a photographer too — that ‘everyone is taking pictures, give me a camera, I will take pictures too’. Ragu Rai's portrait of filmmaker Satyajit Ray Image: Raghu RaiYou’ve been coming to Calcutta and shooting the city for years.

Source: The Telegraph February 16, 2019 19:18 UTC