We love her, we hate her, and we love her again.

Given the years that the photographer spent in the Dantesque city of Calcutta, in all more than fifty-six trips into the madness of its streets, it seemed quite clear to the publisher that Benoit Lange would be the witness of this megalopolis so difficult to define. In this collection, where each photographer, through his privileged link with a mythical city, becomes its ambassador, Benoit Lange was chosen to speak in Images of "his" Calcutta.

We follow him in all these moments received, immortalized through a 30-year journey in this city that resembles a princess in rags.

Calcutta arms us for life. Calcutta disarms us emotionally. The photographer devotes an extreme passion where his sensitivity is constantly on the lookout. Calcutta is a torture and his balm at the same time.

Sunetra Gupta's text is a return to the sources for the writer living in England. Her roots are anchored in Bengali culture and she proves to us how the city is a tattoo that we wear for life.