Indiana University School of Journalism

Photo by Ben Weller

Associate professor Steve Raymer participated in a panel discussion during an earlier Reporting India session of the series. He’ll talk about his own work Friday.

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Starting in 2003, associate professor and photojournalist Steve Raymer circled the globe, researching and photographing the Indian diaspora in 15 countries. This fall, Indiana University Press published his new book, Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora, that documents in photos and text what he found.

Raymer talks about his experience and his book Friday, 5:30 p.m. in the Ernie Pyle Auditorium. The talk is part of a semester-long series of talks and conferences sponsored by the School of Journalism and the India Studies Program.

Twenty to 25 million Indians live outside India on all seven continents. In Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora, Raymer chronicles the struggles and triumphs of these Indian emigrants as they toil in the sugar plantations of Trinidad, carve lives for themselves in English towns and run some of the most powerful organizations in the United States.

In addition to teaching photojournalism, media ethics and international newsgathering, Raymer also is on the faculty of IU’s Russian and East European Institute and its India Studies Program. Before coming to IU in 1995, Raymer directed the National Geographic Society News Service. He has received a citation for excellence in foreign reporting from the Overseas Press Club of America and in 1976 was named the magazine photographer of the year by the National Press Photographers Association.

All talks in the series are free and open to the public. 

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