Raghu rai biography of alberta
Raghu Rai (born in December ) qualified as a civil engineer, started photography at the age of 23 in He joined The Statesman newspaper as their chief.!
Raghu Rai was born in in the small village of Jhhang, now part of Pakistan.
He also completed the text for Raghu Rai's photographic celebration of the Bahá'í House of Worship in New Delhi, Forever in Bloom.
He took up photography in , and the following year joined The Statesman newspaper as its chief photographer.
Impressed by an exhibit of his work in Paris in , Henri Cartier-Bresson nominated Rai to join Magnum Photos in Rai left The Statesman in to work as picture editor for Sunday, a weekly news magazine published in Calcutta.
He left in and worked as Picture Editor/Visualizer/Photographer of India Today, India’s leading news magazine, during its formative years. From to , he worked on special issues and designs, contributing trailblazing picture essays on social, political and cultural themes, many of which became the talking point of the magazine.
In the last 18 years, Rai has specialized in extensive coverage of India.
He has produced more than 18 books, including Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, Taj Mahal, Tibet in Exile, India, and Mother Teresa.
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