Legendary Photographers From India

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LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM INDIA

BENU SEN : Benu Sen (26 May 1932 17 May 2011) was an Indian photographerfrom Kolkata, India. He was the Secretary General of the Federation of Indian

Photography (FIP), the Indian chapter of theFdration Internationale de l'Art

Photographique(FIAP),[3]

and President of the Photographic Association of Dum

Dum (PAD).[4]

In his book, History of Journalism: A Legend of Glory", Prof. Santanu

Banerjee mentioned, "His passion was to guide the oncoming photographers in the profession.

During his life span, he made a pretty number of students dazzled in the arena of

photography." A Photography Unit was set up in the Indian Museum in 1964 for photo

documentation of art objects.[5]

Sen was the in-charge of the unit. He retired from the museum

as Photo Off icerin 1990 and contributed many photographic works both in the field of social &

cultural anthropology and museum related photographs. He received the Life-TimeAchievementaward of Rs.100,000 and a citation in the pictorialists category conferred by the

Vice President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, on 19 August 2010 at New Delhi.[7]

Other

important honors and fellowships that he received were Master of Photo graphy (M.F.I.A.P)

fromFdrati on Inter nat io nal e de l 'A rt Pho to gr aph ique,Fel lowship o f theRoyal Photographic

Societyof Great B ritain (F.R.P.S) in 1975, EFIAPin 1960, ESFIAPin 1972 and several honorary

fellowships like F.J.I.A.P. (Japan), F.N.P.A.S. (Sri Lanka), F.P.B.S. (Bangladesh), F.P.A.D.

(India)and F.C.O.S. (Rom ania).

KULWANT ROY : Kulwant Roy (1914, VillageBagli Kalan, District Ludhiana, Punjab, British India

1984) was an Indian photographer. As the head of an agency named "Associated Press

Photographs",he was personally responsible for several iconic images of the Indian independencemovement and the early years of the Republic of India. Among his most iconic photographs are one
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of Jinnah arguing with Gandhi on the verandah of his bungalow; normally credited to the Hulton-Getty

archive, it has recently been established that it was one of many such taken by Roy.[2]

Others include

a similarly well-known photograph of Nehru and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan walking

asAICCrepresentatives to meet the Cabinet Mission while arickshawcarrying Patel travels alongside.

A photograph of Nehru and Patel listening intently to Gandhi at a Congress Working

Committee meeting was made into a commemorative stamp after Patel's death in 1950; it won a silverplaque fromAmrita Bazar Patrikaas the best news photograph of the year.

[2]After independence in

1947, Roy continued to photograph Nehru in particular, taking several photographs of the Nehru-

Gandhi family and one of Nehru sitting pensively in cricket flannels, his chin resting on his bat. Also in

the 1950s, he was one of the first to document the trek by pilgrims to the cave at Amarnathin Kashmir.

He died in New Delhi in 1984, working till the end; at the time of his death from cancer he was

working on the negatives of the Seventh Non-Aligned Movement Conference.

RAGHU RAI :(born 1942) is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. A protg of Henri

Cartier-Bresson who appointed Rai, then a young photojournalist to Magnum Photos in 1977, which

he co-founded. Rai became a photographer in 1965, and a year later joined the staff ofThe

Statesman, a New Delhi publication. In 1976, he left the paper and became a freelance photographer.

From 1982 up until 1992, Rai was the director of photography forIndia Today. He has served on the

jury for World Press Photo from 1990 to 1997. He is most known for his books, Raghu Rai's India:

Reflections in Colourand Reflections in Black and White. Raghu Rai took up photography in 1965,

and the following year joined "The Statesman" newspaper as its chief photographer. Rai left "The

Statesman" in 1976 to work as picture editor for "Sunday," a weekly news magazine published in

Calcutta. Impressed by an exhibit of his work in Paris in 1971, Henri Cartier-Bresson nominated Rai to

join Magnum Photos in 1977. Rai left "Sunday" in 1980 and worked as Picture

Editor/Visualizer/Photographer of "India Today", Indias leading news magazine, during its formative

years. From 1982 to 1991, he worked on special issues and designs, contributing trailblazing picture

essays on social, political and cultural themes, many of which became the talking point of the

magazine.Rai has specialized in extensive coverage of India. He has produced more than 18 books,

including Raghu Rais Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, Taj Mahal, Tibet in Exile, India, and

Mother Teresa. His photo essays have appeared in many of the worlds leading magazines and

newspapers including Time, Life, GEO, The New York Times, Sunday Times, Newsweek, The

Independent, and the New Yorker.For Greenpeace, he has completed an in-depth documentary

project on the chemical disaster at Bhopal in 1984, which he covered as a journalist with India

Todayin 1984, and on its ongoing effects on the lives of gas victims. This work resulted in abook, Exposure: A Corporate Crime and three exhibitions that toured Europe, America, India and
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southeast Asia after 2004, the 20th anniversary of the disaster. Rai wanted the exhibition to support

the many survivors through creating greater awareness, both about the tragedy, and about the victims

many who are still uncompensated who continue to live in the contaminated environment around

Bhopal.He has served three times on the jury of the World Press Photo and twice on the jury of

UNESCO's International Photo Contest.

PABLO BARTHOLOMEW: (born 1955) is an award-winning Indian photojournalist and an

independent photographer based in New Delhi, India. He is noted for his photography, as an educator

running photography workshops, and as manager of a software company specializing in photo

database solutions and server-based digital archiving systems likeNetphotograph. He was awarded

thePadma Shriby Government of India in 2013. Represented by Gamma Liaison for over 20 years,

he worked as aphotojournalistrecording societies in conflict and transition. His works have been

published in theNew York Times,Newsweek,Time,Business Week,National GeographicandGEO,

amongst other prestigious magazines and journals. Bartholomew then began photographing people in

transition in different parts of the world.He has held a number of fellowships, including one from

theAsian Cultural Council, New York (1987),to photograph Indian immigrants in the USA, and one

from the Institute of Comparative Studies in Human Culture, Norway (1995), to photograph the Naga

tribes in India. Between 2001 and 2003 he ran a photography workshop for emerging photographers

in India with the support of theWorld Press PhotoFoundation in Amsterdam. Among his photo

essays are "The Chinese in Calcutta," "The Indians in America," and "The Naga Tribes of NortheastIndia.
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Altaf Qadri, born inSrinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administeredKashmir, is an

outstandingphotojournalistof his generation. Altaf studied science at Kashmir University and began

his working life as acomputer engineerbefore he tookphotographyas a profession. It was not long

before Altaf gained his first freelance assignment and, in 2001, he became a staff photographer on a

local newspaper. In 2003, he joined the "European Pressphoto Agency", for which he provided

extensive coverage of the conflict in Kashmir till May 2008. Qadri works forThe Associated

Presssince September 2008 and is presently based in Indian capital, New Delhi. He has covered

news and feature stories from Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco, Thailand

and numerous provinces of India. He had a miraculous escape after being trapped behind enemy

lines while covering Libyan unrest in 2011. for more than 30 hours and His photographs and stories

have appeared in prestigious newspapers, news magazines around the globe includingNational

Geographic,Time,Newsweek,The Guardian,The New York Times,International Herald

Tribune,Washington PostandThe Timesamong others. He has had many exhibitions in several cities

like, Los Angeles, Washington DC, San Francisco, New Mexico, Cambodia, Houston, New York,

Beijing, France, New Delhi and Mumbai. His photograph of Myanmar's pro-democracy iconAung San

Suu Kyiarriving to address an election rally has been compared with "Liberty Leading the People".

HOMAI VYARAWALLA :Homai Vyarawalla (born 1913), commonly known by her

pseudonym Dalda 13, is Indias first woman photojournalist. She soughtout subjects not recorded on camera before and pioneered a new form ofreporting, She started her career in 1930s and thereafter received notice at the national levelwhen she moved to Mumbai in 1942 with her family, before moving to Delhi, where in the next thirty

years she photographed many political and national leaders, including Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Indira

Gandhi and theNehru-Gandhi familywhile working as a press photographer. At the onset of

theWorld War II, she started working on assignments of the Bombay basedThe Illustrated Weekly of

Indiamagazine which over the years till 1970, published many of her black and white images, which

later became iconic. She did not take a single photograph in the last 40-plus years of her life. When

asked why she quit photography while at the peak of her profession, she said "It was not worth it any

more. We had rules for photographers; we even followed a dress code. We treated each other withrespect, like colleagues. But then, things changed for the worst. They [the new generation of
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photographers] were only interested in making a few quick bucks; I didn't want to be part of the crowd

anymore."[7]

Prabuddha Dasgupta (21 September 1956 12 August 2012) was a notedfashionandfine-art

photographerfromIndia.[2]

Known for his iconic black and white imagery, he had an extended career,

primarily as a fashion photographer, spanning more than three decades.[3]

Amongst his books, he is

most known forWomen (1996), a collection of portraits and nudes of urban Indian women. Though he

was he trained as a historian, he started his career as copywriter with advertising agency Everest,

before turning to photography full-time in late 1980s.[3][8]

During his career as a commercial

photographer, which took off with a campaign for Blue Lagoon Jeans,[9]

Dasgupta worked with the

first generation of Indian supermodels likeMadhu Sapre,Feroze Gujral, Shyamolie Verma andMehr

Jesia. According to historian,William Dalrymple, with whom he worked on his book Edge of Faith,

Rohit KhoslaandRohit Bal, along with Prabuddha, invented glamour in India.[8]

A self-taught

photographer, he received the Yves Saint Laurent grant for photography in 1991,[10]

for his

photograph of model Feroze Gujral, shot for designerSuneet Varma. As a tribute to him, the theme of

the 2ndDelhi Photo Festival(2013) was chosen as "Grace", inspired by a talk he gave at the 1st

edition of the festival in 2011, "I want to have a long string of images, held together by grace, because

grace is that undefineable, non rational, non linear word that I am looking for."
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Gautam Rajadhyaksha (September 16, 1950 September 13, 2011) was one ofIndia's

leadingfashion photographers, and was based inMumbai, India[1][2]

He was one of India's best

known celebrity portraitists, having photographed almost all the icons of the Indian Film industry.

Having completed his diploma in advertising and public relations, Rajadhyaksha joined the photo

services department ofLintasIndia Ltd,[4]

a leading advertising agency in 1974, and eventually

becoming the head of the department. During his 15 year stint, he participated in the creation of

milestone ad campaigns, while continuing his childhood passion of photography over the

weekends.His first encounter with fashion photography happened 1980, when he happen to shoot

pictures of actressShabana Azmi(a college mate),Tina MunimandJackie Shroff, and his passion

forportraiture photographywas lit,[4][5]

eventually he left his advertising job in 1987, and took

upcommercial photographyfull-time, and soon started doing product campaigns, media assignments

and fashion portfolios.[4]

While he was still working for the Lintas, as a copywriter,Shobha Dehis

cousin invited him to write for her magazine, 'Celebrity', soon after started shooting photographs for

his articles, this got him attention and soon acclaim as aglamour photographer, and before long he

started working for other magazines as well, includingThe Illustrated Weekly of India, and film

magazines likeStardust,CineblitzandFilmfare.[6]

Apart from doing occasional television talk shows,he editedMarathientertainment fortnightly, 'Chanderi' and composed a popular column, Manas Chitra,

in a leading Marathi news daily.[citation needed]

His 1997 releasedcoffee table book, titled FACES,

contained profles of 45 film personalities beginning withDurga Khote, one of India's first ladies of the

Indian screen and ending withAishwarya Rai, the former Miss World and todayBollywood's leading

actress. In 1992, he wrote his first screenplay, for the film, 'Bekhudi', which launched actressKajol's

career and his second, 'Anjaam' presented,Madhuri Dixitwith a challenging role. In 2000, he held his

first ever photo-exhibition inPunewhich showcased, twenty years of his photography

work.[5]

Exhibitions of Rajadhyaksha's work have been held inPune, Goa andKolhapurwith all

attracting large crowds. Further exhibitions of his work in San Francisco,

London,BirminghamandDubai, have all been well attended as well.

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He used to idolise the work ofJitendra Arya and was also influenced by his works published in Flimfare, The Illustrated Weekly of

India and oftenThe Times of India.

Thakur Dalip Singh (born 5 August 1953) is a renowned and internationally recognised

Indianphotographer. He is originally specialized in natural and wildlife photography but later turnedtoaerial photographyof subjects in many locations across the world. He is Patron of Punjabi Kala
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Academy. In addition, he is also a life member of the Bombay Natural History Society and World

Wildlife Fund, India. He was founder president of LENSMEN club, Ludhiana, Pb., He is also member

of International Society for Aviation photography, as well as was member of executive committee of

India International Photographic Council. He has been honoured with the Associateship Of The Indian

International Photographic Council in 1986 and Associateship ofRoyal Photographic Society, U.K, in

1987. He held several one-man shows at different places. Artist Of The Year 1993 by CONCEPT,

Chandigarh was conferred upon him. Life Time Achievement Award Conferred by Academy of Visual

Media in 2004.[3]

He was faculty member in several International and National photo workshops and

has given several illustrated talks on photo technique also. He has judged several national and

international photo exhibitions.

Atul Kasbekar is perhaps Indias best-known photographer. A graduate of the Brooks Institute, Santa

Barbara, USA, he has been actively shooting in India since 1991.His editorial work appears in editions

of Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, L`Officiel and Vogue on a regular basis. Atuls advertising

clients include Adidas, Airtel, Canon, Citizen, Coke, Colgate, Compaq, Evian, Garnier, Gillette, Hero

Honda, Hutch, Hyundai, ITC, LOreal, Lee, Levis, Nestle, Omega, P&G, Pantene, Parker, Pepsi, Rado,

Raymond, Reebok, Reliance Industries, Suzuki, Tag Heuer, The United Breweries Group, Tissot, Titan

and Unilever.Atul conceived the iconic Kingfisher Calendar for the UB Group. The calendar is now a

cult phenomenon and is seen as a platform for Indian fashion.The calendar has acted as a launch pad

for some of the best-known faces in the fashion and the Indian Motion Industry today. It is a

recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious FAB awards in the UK, honoring excellence infood and beverage advertising worldwide.Atul Kasbekar is the brand ambassador for Panasonic Lumix

range of cameras and has been the honorary chairman of the Photographers Guild of India since its

inception.
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