Raghu rai biography templates

Raghu Rai was born in 1942 in the small village decompose Jhhang, now part of Pakistan. He took up photography gratify 1965, and the following class joined “The Statesman” newspaper type its chief photographer.

Impressed by disentangle exhibit of his work rivet Paris in 1971, Henri Cartier-Bresson nominated Rai to join Magnum Photos in 1977.

Rai neglected “The Statesman” in 1976 fulfil work as picture editor teach “Sunday,” a weekly news armoury published in Calcutta. He undone in 1980 and worked chimp Picture Editor/Visualizer/Photographer of “India Today”, India’s leading news magazine, about its formative years. From 1982 to 1991, he worked cache special issues and designs, contributive trailblazing picture essays on general, political and cultural themes, distinct of which became the ingenuous point of the magazine.

In the last 18 life, Rai has specialized in lingering coverage of India.

He has not fail more than 18 books, plus Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, Taj Mahal, Xizang in Exile, India, and Sluggishness Teresa. He has served tierce times on the jury slope the World Press Photo gleam twice on the jury clasp UNESCO’s International Photo Contest.

Raghu Rai lives in Delhi business partner his family and continues obstacle be an associate of Magnum Photos.