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'''Bandi Rajan Babu''' (9 February 1938 – 25 August 2011) was an Indian photographer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sakshi.com/main/FullStory.aspx?catid=219401&subcatid=7&Categoryid=3 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=26 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321005422/http://www.sakshi.com/main/FullStory.aspx?catid=219401&subcatid=7&Categoryid=3 |archivedate=21 March 2012 }}</ref> He is known for his black and white pictures of [[tribal]] people. He owned the Rajan School of Photography.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-educationplus/article2357605.ece |title=FEATURES / EDUCATION PLUS : Short-term diploma courses by RSP in collaboration with JNAFAU |publisher=The Hindu |date=15 August 2011 |accessdate=7 July 2012}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
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Bandi Rajan Babu was born at [[Korutla]], in the [[Karimnagar district]] ([[Jagtial district]]) of the Indian state of [[Telangana]]. <br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Rajan took to serious photography in 1960 after joining the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad|Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University]].<br />
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Rajan Babu was all set to become a painter until given a [[Kodak camera]]. "One of my cousins presented me with a camera when I was in my seventh class and I casually clicked some photos that were appreciated by all, and that was the seeding of a photographer in me. Later, when I joined the five-year diploma course in commercial art, I came across Raja Triambak Raj Bahadur, a pioneer in pictorial photography. It was he who inspired me to wield the camera. And here I am today from a painter to a photographer."<br />
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== Career ==<br />
He started as a lecturer at [[Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University|JNTU Fine Arts College]]. Later, he established his own school and mastered the craft of ‘pictorial photography'. He was a Fellow of the [[Royal Photographic Society]] of Great Britain, an Associate of the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique|International Federation of Photographic Art]], France, and an Honorary Fellow of the AP State Akademi of Photography.<br />
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He became a pictorial, fashion and glamour, industrial and advertising photographer. He drew inspiration from Raja Triambak Raj Bahadur, the first from former [[Andhra Pradesh]] to be honored with the status of Associate of Britain's Royal Photographic Society. <br />
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He later worked as a scientific photographer in International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics. <br />
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He opened his studio in 1978 and thereafter, was among India's leading photographers.{{according to whom|date=October 2018}} <br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
He married and had three kids. He has five grand children.<br />
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==Recognition==<br />
Rajan got his first international honor from [[Belgium]], received the APRS honor in 1983, and followed it up with the Fellowship of the [[Royal Photographic Society]] in 1987. Apart from winning national and international awards, he is the only Fellow of Royal Photographic Society from AP.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://telanganautsav.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/poetic-pictures-of-photographer-bandi-rajan-babu/ Article on Bandi Rajan Babu]<br />
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[[Category:20th-century Indian photographers]]<br />
[[Category:Telugu people]]<br />
[[Category:People from Karimnagar district]]<br />
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