Raghubir Singh

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Raghubir Singh also known as Raghubir Singh Khatu was a renowned photographer of India. He was born in 1942 in a thakur family at Khatu near Jaipur in Rajasthan .

After his education in Jaipur and at Hindu College of Delhi, he went to Calcutta to make a career in the tea industry. By this time, he had started amateur photography. It is said that Satyajit Ray had initially found his photographs 'without guts'. Young Raghubir took it as a challenge and pursued photography wholeheartedly and more vigorously . In the 1970s, Raghubir moved to Paris and during three decades of rigorous training and exposure, he carved his own niche in international photography with a series of portfolio of colour photography on India.

He was awarded Padma Shri in 1983. He was also awarded the Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh Award (posthumously) 27th October 2001 .In 1972 he married Anne de Henning Michaelis. He died on 18th April 1999. He daughter's name is Devika Singh.

Raghubir Singh always described himself as a pupil of Fr. Willmes in photography. He had published many books.[1]