Raghu Rai

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

India's most famous photojournalist, Raghu Rai, passed today.

Om Shanthi.


An interesting video feature, albeit dated, on Indian photojournalism:

https://www.ndtv.com/video/india-matters-imaging-india-65-aired-august-2012-287082

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

A podcast with Raghu Rai (in Hindi):

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Condolences.

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/world/asia/raghu-rai-photographer-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

 

[miha]

India's most famous photojournalist, Raghu Rai, passed today.

Om Shanthi.

A magnificent body of work.

 

[Alan Johnson]

Raghu Rai: The photographer who showed India to itself

With Rai's passing, India has lost a visual historian who was a chronicler of its most defining and often painful moments.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Eishwaneeren]

I think his spirit is carried by most happy indian photographers... Happy is the worst descriptor but I mean people who shoot for the love of it like me and shoot regularly - I just use my phone these days. I suppose the cover of "Mumbai" is similar to this pic i took in March... Prolly nothing like it, lol.

Good bye to a legend. You must understand how few "big" photographers come from India. I sometimes feel like him lol

 

[miha]

You must understand how few "big" photographers come from India. I sometimes feel like him lol

Do you know why? India is such a wonderful and photogenic county. A few phone snaps I took two weeks ago while in Chennai (SE India):

 

[Eishwaneeren]

Do you know why? India is such a wonderful and photogenic county. A few phone snaps I took two weeks ago while in Chennai (SE India):

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it's because in film times people barely had money... So a culture of basically any of the arts never came back, including photography. People needed to earn first and an endless amount of brilliant software engineers popped up. And obviously it depends where you go if it's photogenic or not.

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

Raghu Rai’s masterful images of Indian life – in pictures

Recruited to Magnum Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1977, the veteran photographer, who has died aged 83, made defining images of grand and intimate Indian life for five decades

www.theguardian.com

Raghu Rai Tribute 2026: Photography, Nation & Memory

Raghu Rai’s photography reshaped Indian photojournalism from Emergency India to Bhopal Gas tragedy, capturing power and pain as nation and media evolved.

frontline.thehindu.com

https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-raghu-rai/

 

[miha]

@Raghu Kuvempunagar Thank you. A true master he was!

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

@miha: you're welcome.

@Alan Johnson: thanks for sharing BBC tribute to Raghu Rai.

@Eishwaneeren: thanks for your perspective.