Raghu Rai (b.1942) originally trained as a civil engineer, before taking up photography at the age of 23, in 1965. A year later, he joined the New Delhi based national weekly magazine ‘The Statesman’ as their chief photographer, moving on after 10 years to become the picture editor with the prestigious Kolkata based weekly, ‘Sunday’. In 1977 he returned to New Delhi to become the picture editor, as well as its active photographer, for the leading national weekly, ‘India Today’. Henri Cartier-Bresson saw an exhibition of Rai’s in Paris at the Galerie Delpire in 1971, and was sufficiently impressed to nominate him to the world-famous Magnum Photo Agency. In the same year he was honoured by the Indian Government with the Padmashree Award.
Raghu Rai will be present at the opening.
The show is on from 14th December to 28th December 2012.
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