India, April 26 -- Raghu Rai, one of India's most renowned photographers, died at a private hospital in Delhi on Sunday. He was 83. His son, photographer Nitin Rai, said he had been battling cancer for the past two years.

"Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago but he was cured. Then it spread to the stomach, that too was cured. Recently the cancer spread to his brain and then there were age related issues too," he told news agency PTI.

Raghu Rai was born in 1942 in Jhang, Punjab, then in British India (now in Pakistan). He began learning photography in 1962 under his elder brother, photographer S Paul.

Rai started his professional career in the mid-1960s and joined The Statesman in New Delhi in 1965 as a photographer. Du...