YPS Meet Live | August 16, Sun | 5:30 PM | YPS Facebook page

The most important aspect for a photographer is good light!  We see colours due to the presence of light. And when we say light, in terms of photography, we are mostly referring to ‘White light’ that is sunlight which consists of seven colours, in short called VIBGYOR. In order to record all colours truly, most types of photography is done using White Light, even when we use studio lights. During the film era, commonly used colour films had a marking ‘Daylight Type’ which referred to the white light as mentioned. But not many photographers however know that the band of white light that human eyes see is actually a very small portion of spectrum. It is this small range that we can see (from 400 nm to 700 nm approx.) and it is called VISIBLE SPECTRUM, rest is invisible to us. The band of INVISIBLE SPECTRUM extends considerably on both sides of the VISIBLE SPECTRUM. IR (Infrared) band is a similar portion that cannot be seen through naked human eyes but with special photographic material, it can be recorded. It produces very interesting photos both in black & white and colour. There are a lot of technicalities involved in IR Photography.

The presentation will start with images from VISIBLE SPECTRUM gradually progressing from one colour to another and will proceed to images captured using IR Spectrum to produce very different looking Black & White pictures. IR Spectrum photography was done by hardly 4-5 people in India during the 1990s

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About the Speaker

Dr. Bhupesh C Little
PhD, Post Doc. Fellow USA
EFIAP (France), MFA, MICS, Hon. FICS (USA), MUPHK , FUPHK (Hong Kong), Hon. PESGSPC (Cyprus), Hon. TAMAPC, EFMPA, Hon. PSNY, MHIPS, Hon. FHIPS, Hon. FWPG (Soudi Arabia)
Associate Professor, Applied Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, New Delhi, India
Ex. Head of School, Creative Arts, Fiji National University, Fiji Islands, South Pacific
Ex Head, Applied Art & Photography, Ex. Dean SW, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lucknow University, India
Hon. Chair, International Honours, ICS, USA
International Representative, Photographic Society of America

Dr. Bhupesh C Little is a university teacher of Photography & Graphic Design for 25 years, having taught in India and abroad. (this being his Silver Jubilee year as university teacher)  Currently he is holding a position at Jamia Millia Islamia Central University 

He works as the Vice President for The Image Colleague Society, USA for the India chapter. He has also developed many courses for Photography, Applied and Fine Arts as an expert for the University Grants Commission(UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE). He is the first Indian to hold a PhD in Photography in India. Dr. Bhupesh has been awarded over 250 times in many reputed exhibitions and his works are in the prestigious permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum, Spain, Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP) and the Photographic Society of America(PSA) to name a few.

Dr. Bhupesh was also the International representative of the Photographic Society of America from 2010 to 2013. Currently, he is the Vice President for the India and Asia Chapter of the Image Colleague Society and he is also the chair of International Honours of ICS.

He started Photography in 1987 and serious participation in all India & International exhibitions since 1990 and from 1995 his passion also became one of the subjects of his teaching when he joined Lucknow University for teaching.

Achievements:

• He has 13 Honorary Fellowships and Fellowships from foreign
• He was awarded EFIAP by FIAP France
• Master Image Colleague Society USA,
• Hon. FICS from ICS USA,
• Master UPHK (Hong Kong)
• Fellow UPHK (Hong Kong)
• PESGSPC (Cyprus)
• Hon. PSNY, Photographic Society of New York
• Hon. EFMPA USA
• Hon. TAMAPC USA
• Hon. Fellow WPG (Saudi Arabia)
• He is past Chair of International Honours, ICS USA
• Honorary Vice President of Image Colleague Society USA
• He is the winner of First “National Academy Award” for Photography awarded by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
• He has been awarded by Govt. of India 13 times by various ministries.  He was instrumental in introducing Photography in Higher Education at Master Degree and PhD levels in India in 1996 & 2010 respectively (both at Lucknow University)
• His students too, have achieved lots of unmatched accolades, including FIRST INDIAN WOMAN TO COMPLETE PhD in Photography and his student Anurag won HIPA Grand Prize of Rs.80 Lakhs (never won by any other Indian). He says, “As a teacher my real success is what my students have done in the last 25 years as university teachers, not my personal awards.”
• He was one of the only 5 Indians to be selected to represent in a Coffee Table Book depicting the History of Photographic Society of America on their Platinum Jubilee (75 years) in 2009.
• In all he had won over 250 awards of National and International levels before he took retirement from Salon participation in 2005.
• He is the first Indian Post-Doctoral Fellow (USA) to be selected in his field.
• His works are in many prestigious collections: Metropolitan Museum, Spain, France, Belgium, USA, ICCR, Academy of Fine Art, Photographic Society of America & WWF to name a few only.

-YPS Executive Committee