LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM INDIA

BENU SEN :
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Benu Sen (26 May 1932 17 May 2011) was an Indian photographer was the Secretary Indian chapter of and President of General of the Federation of Indian the Fdration Internationale de l'Art the Photographic Association of Dum

Dum (PAD). 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. Sen was the in-charge of the unit. He retired from the museum as Photo Officer in 1990 and contributed many photographic works both in the field of social & cultural anthropology and museum related photographs. He received the Life-Time Achievement award 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. Other important honors and fellowships that he received were Master of Photography (M.F.I.A.P) from Fdration Internationale de l'Art Photographique, Fellowship of theRoyal Photographic Society of Great Britain (F.R.P.S) in 1975, EFIAP in 1960, ESFIAP in 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. (Romania).
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KULWANT ROY : Kulwant Roy (1914, Village Bagli 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 independence movement and the early years of the Republic of India. Among his most iconic photographs are one

of Jinnah arguing with Gandhi on the verandah of his bungalow; normally credited to the Hulton-Getty [2] archive, it has recently been established that it was one of many such taken by Roy. Others include a similarly well-known photograph of Nehru and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan walking as AICC representatives to meet the Cabinet Mission while arickshaw carrying 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 silver [2] plaque from Amrita Bazar Patrika as the best news photograph of the year. After independence in 1947, Roy continued to photograph Nehru in particular, taking several photographs of the NehruGandhi 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 Amarnath in 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 of The 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 for India 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 Colour and 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 Today in 1984, and on its ongoing effects on the lives of gas victims. This work resulted in a book, Exposure: A Corporate Crime and three exhibitions that toured Europe, America, India and

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 like Netphotograph. He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2013. Represented by Gamma Liaison for over 20 years, he worked as a photojournalist recording societies in conflict and transition. His works have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Business Week, National Geographic and GEO, 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 the Asian 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 the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam. Among his photo essays are "The Chinese in Calcutta," "The Indians in America," and "The Naga Tribes of Northeast India.

Altaf Qadri, born in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, is an outstanding photojournalist of his generation. Altaf studied science at Kashmir University and began his working life as a computer engineer before he took photography as 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 for The Associated Press since 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 including National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, The Guardian, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune,Washington Post and The Times among 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 icon Aung San Suu Kyi arriving 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 sought out subjects not recorded on camera before and pioneered a new form of reporting, She started her career in 1930s and thereafter received notice at the national level
when 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 the Nehru-Gandhi family while working as a press photographer. At the onset of the World War II, she started working on assignments of the Bombay based The Illustrated Weekly of India magazine 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 with respect, like colleagues. But then, things changed for the worst. They [the new generation of

photographers] were only interested in making a few quick bucks; I didn't want to be part of the crowd [7] anymore."

Prabuddha Dasgupta (21 September 1956 12 August 2012) was a noted fashion and fine-art [2] photographer from India. Known for his iconic black and white imagery, he had an extended career, [3] primarily as a fashion photographer, spanning more than three decades. Amongst his books, he is most known for Women (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, [3][8] before turning to photography full-time in late 1980s. During his career as a commercial [9] photographer, which took off with a campaign for Blue Lagoon Jeans, Dasgupta worked with the first generation of Indian supermodels like Madhu Sapre, Feroze Gujral, Shyamolie Verma and Mehr Jesia. According to historian, William Dalrymple, with whom he worked on his book Edge of Faith, [8] Rohit Khosla and Rohit Bal, along with Prabuddha, invented glamour in India. A self-taught [10] photographer, he received the Yves Saint Laurent grant for photography in 1991, for his photograph of model Feroze Gujral, shot for designer Suneet Varma. As a tribute to him, the theme of the 2nd Delhi 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."

Gautam Rajadhyaksha (September 16, 1950 September 13, 2011) was one of India's [1][2] leading fashion photographers, and was based in Mumbai, India 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 [4] services department of Lintas India Ltd, 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 actress Shabana Azmi (a college mate), Tina Munim and Jackie Shroff, and his passion [4][5] for portraiture photography was lit, eventually he left his advertising job in 1987, and took up commercial photography full-time, and soon started doing product campaigns, media assignments [4] and fashion portfolios. While he was still working for the Lintas, as a copywriter, Shobha De his 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, including The Illustrated Weekly of India, and film [6] magazines like Stardust, Cineblitz and Filmfare. Apart from doing occasional television talk shows, he edited Marathi entertainment fortnightly, 'Chanderi' and composed a popular column, Manas Chitra, [citation needed] in a leading Marathi news daily. His 1997 released coffee table book, titled FACES, contained profles of 45 film personalities beginning with Durga Khote, one of India's first ladies of the Indian screen and ending with Aishwarya Rai, the former Miss World and todayBollywood's leading actress. In 1992, he wrote his first screenplay, for the film, 'Bekhudi', which launched actress Kajol's career and his second, 'Anjaam' presented, Madhuri Dixit with a challenging role. In 2000, he held his first ever photo-exhibition in Pune which showcased, twenty years of his photography [5] work. Exhibitions of Rajadhyaksha's work have been held in Pune, Goa and Kolhapur with all attracting large crowds. Further exhibitions of his work in San Francisco, [4] London, Birmingham and Dubai, have all been well attended as well. He used to idolise the work of Jitendra Arya and was also influenced by his works published in Flimfare, The Illustrated Weekly of India and often The Times of India.

Thakur Dalip Singh (born 5 August 1953) is a renowned and internationally recognised Indian photographer. He is originally specialized in natural and wildlife photography but later turned toaerial photography of subjects in many locations across the world. He is Patron of Punjabi Kala

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 of Royal 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 [3] Media in 2004. 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 in food 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.