Prabuddha Dasgupta, a photographer who celebrated nudity, passed away on 12th Aug 2012. He was 56. He was self-taught. His collection of photographs titled Women was published in 1996. It had portraits and nudes of urban Indian women. He did both the commissioned and artistic work. His photographic series Longing too is very famous. He worked with Lara Dutta and Lakshmi Menon. Lakshmi was his muse. Then he entered into a relationship with her.