N. Thiagarajan

N. Thiagarajan (1933–2008) was an Indian

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

and photographer who described himself as "a pictorial photojournalist". From 2002 to 2004 he was a member of the Press Council of India but it was in the field, as a practising photojournalist, and later as photo-editor, that N. Thiagarajan made his name. For many years he worked for The Hindustan Times but spent time at

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, Sport and Pastime and the Times of India. He said: "I have always said that a

or a journalist should be committed to journalism, but should not be a ‘committed journalist’. Like many embedded war photographers or correspondents,”. His break came in 1955 with the visit to India of the Soviet leadership, Nikita Khrushchev and his Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin. He went on to photograph many of the great names of world politics, including

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and Jawaharlal Nehru. He covered the 1971 war, in Bangladesh, where Kishore Parekh and

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were also active, and the Bhopal gas tragedy. He also wanted to move away from portraying India in a negative manner, as a land of beggars and snake charmers. "I want to show that real India exists far away from all of this. The rich cultural heritage and the diversity of the country is what I wanted to portray in my images," he said. {{DEFAULTSORT:Thiagarajan, N. 1933 births 2008 deaths Indian photojournalists