A Reading Path Down a Rabbit Hole: Raghubir Singh

Here are curated, in-depth interviews and profiles with and about the Indian documentary photographer Raghubir Singh.

Musée Magazine

Singh turned to photography after high school, having failed to find work as a tea planter in Calcutta…Instead, Singh took his camera to Calcutta’s streets.

He met Cartier-Bresson years later and showed Cartier-Bresson his work; he flipped through it and then put it aside, deeming color photography not “real art”

NPR

The fundamental condition of the West is one of guilt, linked to death — from which black is inseparable,” he wrote in his 1998 book River of Color. “The fundamental condition of India, however, is the cycle of rebirth, in which color is not just an essential element but also a deep inner source.