
Raghu Rai, a renowned Indian photographer known as the “Father of Indian Photojournalism”, passed away at the age of 83. He was a recipient of Padma Shri in 1972.
In 1977, he became the first Indian photographer to join the international cooperative Magnum Photos, nominated by Henri Cartier-Bresson. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) in 2017 and the Académie des Beaux-Arts Photography Award in 2019.
