Ganapati Immersion, Chowpatty, Bombay, Maharashtra, 1989. Photographs copyright © 2017 Succession Raghubir Singh

In his short life of 56 years, Raghubir Singh married Western modernism with his keen eye for capturing the Indian milieu in a manner that lent a unique touch to his photography. In his words, his distinct style was, "on the Ganges side of modernism, rather than the Seine or East River side of it."