Overview
- Raghu Rai, the Delhi-based photographer who died Sunday, is being honored for a six-decade record of India’s public life.
- The Sunday Guardian reports he died of cancer at a New Delhi hospital.
- He led photography at The Statesman in the 1960s and later shaped India Today’s visual voice as picture editor and staff photographer.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson championed his work and brought him into Magnum Photos, leading to essays in National Geographic, Time and other global outlets, and honors including the Padma Shri and France’s Arts and Letters.
- His Bhopal gas disaster photographs, notably The Burial of Bhopal, became defining evidence of the tragedy and showed his refusal to sensationalize suffering.