Raghubir Singh

Beautiful documentary photography of India. His pictures are layered, complex, noisy, always colourful, and he loves finding frames within the frame. They remind me of being in India, and I’m sad that I wasn’t aware of Singh’s work before I visited. His influences from the West are Robert Frank, Cartier Bresson, Eggleston and others from that tradition. I can see a lot of Singh’s work in Alex Webb’s pictures.

My favourite project by Singh is A Way Into India, published after his death. The concept is simple: every picture is shot from or features his car, and the results are brilliant. Shooting through the doors and windows again and again, the frame within the frame doesn’t always work, but it’s worth it for when it does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrqFp6Yy534

You can see more of Singh’s work here.

And this is what Claude has to say about Singh.