Art Alive Gallery’s Tribute to nature through
Raghu Rai’s immortal ‘Trees’

Santanu Ganguly

In the last 18 years, Rai has specialized in extensive coverage of India. He has produced more than 18 books, including Raghu Rai’s Delhi, The Sikhs, Calcutta, Khajuraho, Taj Mahal, Tibet in Exile, India, and Mother Teresa.

Art Alive Gallery presents ‘TREES’ an exhibition of the photographers of renowned photographer Raghu Rai. The show also accompanied a book release entitled ‘TREES’. Nature in all its glory has been photographed time and time again. The
exhibition ‘Trees’ showcases photographs of one of nature’s oldest guardians captured by the well known photographer Raghu Rai. The show also showcases coloured photographs that have never been exhibited before. During the exhibition, the Art Alive Gallery also published an illustrated hardback book, Trees, text and photographed by Raghu Rai. (ISBN 978-81- 906463-6-9, Size: 9.5″ x 12″, Price: Rs. 2,000/-). Raghu Rai was born in the small village of Jhhang, now part of Pakistan in 1942. He took up photography in 1965, and in the following year joined “The Statesman” newspaper as its chief photographer. Impressed by an exhibit of his work in Paris in 1971, Henri Cartier- Bresson nominated Rai to join Magnum Photos in 1977.