LOCATION
Ballygunge, Kolkata
DATES
9–11 February 2024
COVERAGE
Photography + Film
TEAM
Three of us
We arrived on the morning of the gaye holud and stayed until the last car left. The house had one narrow staircase and eighty relatives moving through it, which meant most of the day was photographed at arm’s length in a corridor. Some of the frames we like best came from that corridor.
Her mother did not stop smiling until the vidaai, and then she did not stop crying.
The wedding itself ran three hours late, as they always do. By the time the pheras began the courtyard lights had come on and the whole space had turned the colour of the marigolds. We shot the ceremony almost entirely on one lens, close in, because nothing further away was worth looking at.
