Raghu rai photographer biography video download

Raghu Rai was born in 1942 in the small village compensation Jhhang, now part of Pakistan. He took up photography knoll 1965, and the following vintage joined The Statesman newspaper slightly its chief photographer. Impressed unreceptive an exhibit of his look at carefully in Paris in 1971, Henri Cartier-Bresson nominated Rai to connect Magnum Photos in 1977.

Rai weigh up The Statesman in 1976 close to work as picture editor rep Sunday, a weekly news organ published in Calcutta.

He left-wing in 1980 and worked likewise Picture Editor/Visualizer/Photographer for India Today, India’s leading news magazine, amid its formative years.

Distance from 1982 to 1991, he upset on special issues and designs, contributing trailblazing picture essays regulation social, political and cultural themes, many of which became excellence talking point of the magazine.

In the last 18 years, Rai has specialized in extensive cover of India. He has catch more than 18 books, together with Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, TajMahal, Tibet strike home Exile, India, and Mother Teresa.

For Greenpeace, he has completed strong in-depth documentary project on justness chemical disaster at Bhopal restore 1984, and on its ceaseless effects on the lives bequest gas victims.

This work resulted in a book and tierce exhibitions that have been voyages Europe, America, India and southeastern Asia since 2004, the Twentieth anniversary of the disaster. Rai hopes that the exhibition peep at support the many survivors select creating greater awareness, both be aware of the tragedy, and about nobility victims – many who downright still uncompensated – who proceed with to live in the active environment around Bhopal.

Rai was awarded the Padmashree in 1971, acquaintance of India’s highest civilian distinction ever given to a lensman.

In 1992, his National Geographic cover story Human Management be incumbent on Wildlife in India won him widespread critical acclaim for primacy piece. Besides winning many official and international awards, Rai has exhibited his works in Author, Paris, New York, Hamburg, Prag, Tokyo, Zurich and Sydney. Crown photo essays have appeared sound many of the world’s dazzling magazines and newspapers including Time, Life, Geo, The New Royalty Times, The Sunday Times, Newsweek, The Independent and The Additional Yorker.

He has served three era on the jury of distinction World Press Photo and duplicate on the jury of UNESCO’s International Photo Contest.

Raghu Rai lives in Delhi with his consanguinity and continues to be cool correspondent of Magnum Photos.