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Tom May

RIP Raghu Rai: India's greatest documentary photographer dies aged 83

Raghu Rai, Photographer of exhibition "In Light of India", Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2014 held at ArtisTree, Taikoo Place (Photo by Dickson Lee/South China Morning Post via Getty Images).

It started with a donkey.

In 1962, Raghu Rai was a civil engineer on a break, visiting his brother, photographer S Paul. He borrowed a camera, pointed it at a donkey staring straight back at him, and discovered two things in quick succession: that he couldn't get close enough without the animal bolting, and that he was perfectly willing to spend three hours in pursuit of a single frame.

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