Edition 2007
Raghu RAI
Born in 1942 in Jhhang.
Lives and works in New Delhi.
Lives and works in New Delhi.
Raghu Rai started photography in 1965. He joined The Statesman newspaper as the chief photographer (1966-1976), and was then Picture Editor at Sunday, a weekly news magazine published from Calcutta (1977-1980). In 1971, Rai was nominated to Magnum Photo by Henri Cartier Bresson. He took over as Picture Editor-Visualiser-Photographer of India Today, India’s leading news magazine in its formative years (1982-1991).Besides winning many national and international awards, Rai has exhibited his works in London, Paris, New York, Hamburg, and Prague, Bunkamura museum in Tokyo, Zurich and Sydney.He has done extensive work on the photo documentation of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy and its continuing effects on the lives of gas victims under a special assignment from Greenpeace International. This documentation has been compiled into a book with three sets of exhibition travelling all over the world.In the last eighteen years, Rai has specialized in extensive coverage of India and has produced more than 18 books. Raghu Rai lives with his family and continues to be an associate of Magnum Photos.
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