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Passings: Raghu Rai, Legendary Indian Documentary Photographer, Dies at 83

By David Schonauer   Tuesday April 28, 2026

Acclaimed Magnum photographer Raghu Rai, widely regarded as one of the foremost chroniclers of independent India, died on April 26, reports Al Jazeera. He was 83. A construction engineer by training, Rai was born in a village in what is now Pakistan’s Punjab province before the 1947 partition of the …

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