Explore the legacy of Raghu Rai, a visionary photographer who transformed the way we perceive India through his art.
I came to Raghu Rai before I came to photography.
As a young, 18-year-old inconsequential boy shooting for a city magazine, more to fund a relationship than any artistic calling, photography was a means to an end, until his images began to intrude — in passing at first, then completely. They didn’t just influence what I shot, they altered what I thought a photograph could hold.
With Rai's passing, India has lost a visual historian who was a chronicler of its most defining and often painful moments.
Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to photographer Raghu Rai, celebrating his legacy of capturing India's essence through his lens.
Raghu Rai's powerful photography kept the Bhopal gas tragedy's truth alive, highlighting survivor struggles and ongoing suffering.
The Canada-based photographer used his camera’s slo-mo mode to create a fluid pattern
The Punjabi photographer was delighted with this stunning shot of birds being fed on the Yamuna River in Delhi
A new exhibition in Delhi showcases 200 rare photographs that fixed identities in colonial India.
