Rai’s frames documented India's biggest names but also the song of struggling India, with washermen, wrestlers, construction workers, and cart pullers also becoming the subjects of iconic photos.
New Delhi: Renowned photojournalist Raghu Rai, whose camera captured every shade of India’s chaotic yet riveting journey as a nation with empathy and nuance for over five decades, and who became a lodestar to a generation of photographers both home and abroad, passed away at a hospital on Sunday. He was 83.
“He had been suffering from cancer. But his condition worsened in the past couple of weeks,” his assistant Amit Chauhan said.
“He had been suffering from cancer. But his condition worsened in the past couple of weeks,” his assistant Amit Chauhan said.