40 years of India through Raghu Rai’s lens
By Ryan • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Madhusree Chatterjee of Nerve of India:
“New Delhi, March 19 – He is often dubbed the king of camera. Photographer Raghu Rai, who has captured life in all its shades over the last four decades, still tops the list of India’s best lensmen.
A retrospective show of photographs, ‘A Journey of a Moment in Time: Raghu Rai’, spanning 40 years of the ace photographer’s works, was unveiled Tuesday at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi.
‘It is difficult to describe my work. Basically, the title of my show has a lot to say – capturing a moment. For me, it has been the journey of the moment in all these years, a measure of where one has reached,’ Rai, 66, said.
‘Photography is basically a Western language and is relatively young in India. Millions of photographers have captured nice moments across the world, but in India photography has a special significance because it is a multi-religious country where so many cultures co-exist. I have tried to capture all this and more over the last four decades,’ Rai told IANS.
The show features Rai’s milestone series documenting Mother Teresa’s life and work from 1970 till her death in 1997, including her funeral procession. Also on display are his series on Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans in exile and the horrors of the Bhopal gas disaster, which he shot in detail for a prolonged spell since the day after the disaster.”
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