World renowned Magnum photographer Raghu Rai photographs an unbroken sweep of 5,000 years of history in an India teeming with colour and brilliance. Rai's work proclaims the rich diversity of contemporary India, with its juxtapositions of ancient and modern, where the people are the landscape.
Rai uncovers a continent's domestic rituals with these colour images of Indian street life, festivals and the changing seasons. Rai's outspoken photojournalism invoked government hostility during the 1970’s state of emergency. He swiftly garnered approval for the candour of his work, with his story about Indira Gandhi after her '84 assassination quickly becoming a collectors' item. Other major photo-essays include projects on Mother Teresa, the Taj Mahal, Tibet and the Dalai Lama. In ‘71 Rai was awarded India's highest civilian accolade, the Padma Shri. A regular contributor to a huge range of international journals and British broadsheets, from '90 to '97 Rai judged the World Press Photo Awards.

"I believe that the photographer's job is to cut a frame-sized slice out of the world around him, so faithfully and honestly that if he were to put it back again, life and the world would begin to move without stutter…"
Raghu Rai