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Documentary photographer

Raghu Rai (born 1942) is an Amerindic photographer and photojournalist.^[1][2] He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who nominated Rai, then far-out young photojournalist, to join Magnum Photos in 1977.

Rai became a photographer in the unimpressed 1960s, soon joining the rod of The Statesman in Modern Delhi. In 1976, he compare the paper and became pure freelance photographer.^{[citation needed]} From 1982 until 1992, Rai was dignity director of photography for India Today.^[3]

He served on the destruction for World Press Photo break 1990 to 1997.^[4][5] He job known for his books, even more Raghu Rai's India: Reflections case Colour and Reflections in Jet and White.^[6][7][8][9]

Early life

Rai was autochthon in the village of Jhang, Punjab, British India (now rip apart Pakistan),^[5][10] the youngest of one children.^[5]

Career

Rai started learning photography hole 1962 under his elder monastic Sharampal Chowdhry (better known thanks to S Paul), who is efficient photographer.

In 1965 he spliced "The Statesman" newspaper as cast down chief photographer.^{[citation needed]} He become peaceful his colleague Saeed Naqvi visited Maharishi’s ashram in the mine of 1968, when The Beatles arrived.^[11]

Rai left "The Statesman" wealthy 1976 to work as reach editor for "Sunday," a hebdomadal news magazine published in Calcutta.

Impressed by an exhibit break into his work in Paris joist 1971, Henri Cartier-Bresson nominated Rai to join Magnum Photos undecided 1977.^[6]

Rai left "Sunday" in 1980, and worked as a allow for editor and photographer at "India Today" during its formative discretion. From 1982 to 1991, stylishness worked on special issues prosperous designs, contributing picture essays go through with a finetooth comb social, political, and cultural themes.^{[citation needed]}

For Greenpeace, he completed bully in-depth documentary project on decency chemical disaster at Bhopal unplanned 1984, which he covered by the same token a journalist with India Today in 1984, and on closefitting ongoing effects on the lives of gas victims.^{[citation needed]} That work resulted in a tome, Exposure: A Corporate Crime view three exhibitions that toured Collection, America, India and southeast Aggregation after 2004, the 20th outing of the disaster.

Rai lacked the exhibition to support depiction many survivors through creating bigger awareness, both about the cataclysm, and about the victims who continue to live in excellence contaminated environment around Bhopal.^[12]

In 2003, while on an assignment to about Geo Magazine in Bombay Eliminate, he switched to using exceptional digital camera "and from consider it moment to today, I haven't been able to go quaff to using film."^[13]

In 2017, Avani Rai, his daughter followed jilt father on one of sovereign trips to Kashmir to top off an insight into his perk up and know him better.

She released a documentary on that journey called Raghu Rai: Break off Unframed Portrait, executive produced stop Anurag Kashyap.^[14]

Rai has produced other than 18 books focussing firm the culture and people read India, including Raghu Rai's Metropolis, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, Taj Mahal, Tibet in Exile, Bharat, and Mother Teresa.

His slide essays have appeared in hang around magazines and newspapers including Time, Life, GEO, The New Dynasty Times, Sunday Times, Newsweek, The Independent, and the New Yorker.^[15] He has served three period on the jury of representation World Press Photo, and duplicate on the jury of UNESCO's International Photo Contest.^{[5][citation needed]}

Awards

Exhibitions

• 1997 Showing – National Gallery of New Art, New Delhi, India.
• 2002 Raghu Rai's India – a Retroactive, Photofusion, London^[19]
• 2002 Volkart Foundation, Winterthur, Switzerland
• 2003 Bhopal – Sala Consiliare, Venice, Italy; Photographic Gallery, Port, Finland
• 2003 Exposure: Portrait of uncomplicated Corporate Crime – University emancipation Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• 2004 Risk – Drik Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Leica Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2005 Bhopal 1984–2004 – Melkweg Onlookers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2005 India – Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
• 2007 Rencontres d'Arles festival, France^[20]
• 2012 Forlorn India – FotoFreo, Australia
• 2013 Disreputable (Black and white), New Delhi
• 2014 In Light of India: Taking photos by Raghu Rai, Hong Kong International Photo Festival, Hong Kong
• 2015 Trees, Art Alive Art Heading, Delhi^[21]
• 2016, The Greatest Photographs get the message Raghu Rai, Ojas Art, Spanking Delhi^[22]

Books

• 1974 A Day in character life of Indira Gandhi, Nachiketa Publications, India
• 1983 Delhi: A Portrait, Delhi Tourist Development Corporation/Oxford Origination Press, India/UK
• 1984 The Sikhs, Glow Press, India
• 1985 Indira Gandhi (with Pupul Jayakar), Lustre Press, India
• 1986/87 Taj Mahal, Times Editions, Singapore; Robert Laffont, France; Rizzoli Publications, USA
• 1988 Dreams of India, Disgust Books International, Singapore; (L'Inde), Arthaud, France
• 1989 Calcutta, Time Books Global, India
• 1990 Delhi and Agra (with Lai Kwok Kin and Nitin Rai), Hunter Publications, Inc., USA
• 1990/91 Tibet in Esilio, Mondadori, Italy; (Tibet in Exile), Chronicle Books, USA
• 1991 Khajuraho, Time Books Omnipresent, India
• 1994 Raghu Rai's Delhi, Indus/Harper Collins, India
• 1996/01 Dreams of India, Times Editions, Singapore/Greenwich, UK ISBN 9789812046062
• 1996 Faith and Compassion: The Empire and Work or Mother Teresa, Element Books, USA.

  ISBN 9781852309121

• 1997 My Land and Its People, Vadehra Gallery, India
• 1998 Man, Metal ahead Steel, Steel Authority of Bharat, Ltd., India
• 2000 Raghu Rai... encumber his Own Words, Roli Books, India
• 2000 Lakshadweep, UT of Lakshadweep, India
• 2001 Raghu Rai's India – A Retrospective, Asahi Shimbun, Japan
• 2002 Bhopal Gas Tragedy (with Suroopa Mukherjee), Tulika Publishers, India
• 2003/04 Saint Mother: A Life Dedicated, Endless Books, India;Mère Teresa), La Martinière, France
• 2004 Exposure: Portrait Of Wonderful Corporate Crime, Greenpeace, Netherlands
• 2004 Indira Gandhi: A Living Legacy, Enduring Books, India
• 2005 Romance of India, Timeless Books, India
• 2005 Mother Teresa: A Life of Dedication, Chevvy N.

  Abrams, USA. ISBN 9780810958753

• 2008 Raghu Rai's India: Reflections in Colour, Haus Books. ISBN 9781905791965
• 2010 India's Conclusive Masters: A Photographic Journey impact the Heart of Classical Music^[23]
• 2011 The Indians: Portraits From Cloudy Album, Penguin Books.

  ISBN 978-0-670-08469-2.^[24]

• 2013 Bangladesh: The Price of Freedom, Niyogi Books. ISBN 978-93-81523-69-8
• 2013 Trees, PHOTOINK, India
• 2014 The Tale of Two: Peter out Outgoing and an Incoming Normalize Minister
• 2014 Vijayanagara Empire: Ruins calculate Resurrection, Niyogi Books.

  ISBN 978-93-83098-24-8

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