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It was a shoot with a difference. A group of visually challenged students had a day with the Camera at the University of Hyderabad.
The objective help the students try to translate mental images into reality while taking pictures. Well known author Partho Bhowmick (author of See As No Other & In Touch) was the resource person.
The two-day national workshop on 'Blind with Camera' began today with the Empowered Committee for Differently Abled Persons (ECDAP) in collaboration with Universities with Potential for Excellence (UPE) Phase-II at the College for Integrated Studies of the University.
Bhowmick, who is involved in popularizing techniques of shooting with camera using non-visual sensory perceptions, is actively involved in organizing several workshops with visually-impaired persons across the country offering them hands-on-training.
"We need to use others senses like voice, sound and temperature to recognize individual or images. One of his students who is completely visually challenged has done shoots for 8 hours per day and was paid as per the current rates for the photographer", he explained a the inaugural session.
S Rajagopal, Chairman ECDAP, said that under UPE Phase-II they will be getting 20 computers with centralized AC for the use of students at University.
The University has been given a grant by the Union Government to create conducive environment and facilities for the differently Abled at the University campus.
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