For "Life" in 1943 he was in India to produce a harrowing series on the Bengal Famine, with photographs of an elderly woman dying by the roadside, an old man’s ribs poking through his bare chest, truck sweepers cleaning corpses off the streets, and the starved dead being cremated in the street. One of the series, captioned "Terribly concentrated on food, child stuffs self at Ramkrishna Mission Ashram near Calcutta" was chosen in 1955 by curator Edward Steichen for the section 'Famine' in the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition "The Family of Man", that was seen by 9 million visitors.