Photographer Raghu Rai has died, his family said on Sunday. He was 83.
Considered a protégé of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rai became a photographer in the 1960s and worked for The Statesman in Delhi and India Today magazine before freelancing.
He was also a jury for the World Press Photo contest between 1990 and 1997.
Rai published more than a dozen photo books, including on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the Taj Mahal and Bangladesh.
He was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian honour, in 1972.
In pictures:
- Thirty years later, photographer Raghu Rai returns to site of his iconic Bhopal images
- Capturing the moments of a movement: Raghu Rai’s chronicle of JP and the Bihar students agitation
- Raghu Rai’s five-decade career captures the essence of India
- ‘I can never be true to my experiences without a camera’: Raghu Rai
Rest in peace to the greatest documentary photographer out of the subcontinent Raghu Rai. Just a beautiful way of seeing https://t.co/8SaGhHlBUU pic.twitter.com/8PrfMdvrvC
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Raghu Rai 2010 (Mumbai-Where Dreams Don’t Die) pic.twitter.com/saJc9njpP7
Mother Teresa descending the stairs, photographed by Raghu Rai, Kolkata, India, 1970.#MotherTeresa #RaghuRai #Calcutta1970 #Photography #HumanitarianLegacy #TimelessMoments #IconicImages #CompassionInAction #HistoricalPortraits #FaithAndService pic.twitter.com/GmkUQbgS9B
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P. C : Raghu Rai pic.twitter.com/ExKJdMArmJ
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