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RAGHUBIT SINGH received India’s national award, the Padma Shri, in 1983, and by the time of his death, in New York in 1999, he was considered to be one of the world’s finest photographers. Born in Rajasthan, India in 1942. He began his career in the mid-1960s he moved to Paris and developed an international reputation over the next three decades with a series of books of colour photography on India. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. A retrospective of his work, River of Colour, was published in 1998 by Phaidon Press.