Numerous pictures of the campus were taken by shutter happy amateurs.
The World Photography Day is celebrated to commemorate the Daguerreotype process. This was a photographic process developed by Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce and Louis Daguerre in 1837. On January 9, 1839, The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government purchased the patent and announced the invention as a gift “Free to the World”.
It should be noted that the Daguerreotype wasn’t the first permanent photographic image. In 1826, Nicèphore Nièpce captured the earliest known permanent photograph known as ‘View from the Window at Le Gras‘ using a process called Heliography.
August 19th, 1839 was chosen as the date behind World Photo Day because the Daguerreotype was the first practical photographic process and the French government purchased and released the patent of the same on that date.
At LPU the “World Photography Day” was celebrated by the School of Journalism, Film Production and Creative Arts on August 20. A small interactive workshop on mobile/Instagram photography was conducted by the resource person Subojhit Paul, coordinated by Arusha Farooq and Supervised by HOD Mr. Rubaid Ashfaq.
The Department held an open contest where participants shared instagram images directly on the facebook page School-of-Journalism-and-Film-Production-LPU – the picture with the highest engagement (like+share+comment) would be eligible for a special prize. The results are yet to be announced.
Meanwhile the rest of LPU wasn’t letting the occasion go by un-clicked. Numerous pictures of the campus were taken by shutter happy amateurs.
