A Photo-Artist with Pure Instincts: Dr. J. S. Murthy, FFIP, IIPC Platinum(+919893867478, dr.js_murthy@yahoo.co.in)
Born in Tumkur (Karnataka, India) on the 20th June 1937, Dr. J. S. Murthy had instinctive interest in arts since his childhood days. During his early days he observed his respected father, Shri B. J. Chintamani, using Kodak Box Camera, and also the processing of film and printing in his make-shift darkroom. Murthy was fascinated by the emerging images that seemed like “magic”. With his father’s help and his own hard work he carved out a ‘niche’ later in the field of creative photography.Murthy shifted to Jabalpur in 1954 and began to further sharpen his skills that gave him confidence to participate in photographic contests at National and International levels.Dr. Murthy has won a number of awards in the contests of art photography organized in India and overseas. The Federation of Indian Photography, Kolkata has felicitated him with its “Fellowship” (FFIP) in 2005 for outstanding work and India International Photographic Council has honoured him with “Platinum Grade” in 2008 for achieving more than 500 acceptances in IIPC approved competitions. He Murthy has been a Member of Jury in several All India competitions of photography. He is sincerely interested in Photo Journalism. Murthy’s news reports and photographic coverage of Jabalpur earthquake in 1997 were released by the Press Trust of India (PTI) and United News of India (UNI). He was honoured with Bharattendu National Journalism Award for his manuscript “Mass Communication and its various Dimensions” in 1989. He was assigned to cover many events and issues for a period of 10 years by General Board of Global Mission (GBGM) for their official publication “New World Outlook” in 1997. This work was published from New York.Presently, Murthy is a Guest Faculty at the Jabalpur University and Women’s College to teach Journalism. Earlier he has taught MBA classes at Xidas, Xavier Institute for Development and Action Studies and at St. Aloysius’s College, Jabalpur.
Born in Tumkur (Karnataka, India) on the 20th June 1937, Dr. J. S. Murthy had instinctive interest in arts since his childhood days. During his early days he observed his respected father, Shri B. J. Chintamani, using Kodak Box Camera, and also the processing of film and printing in his make-shift darkroom. Murthy was fascinated by the emerging images that seemed like “magic”. With his father’s help and his own hard work he carved out a ‘niche’ later in the field of creative photography.Murthy shifted to Jabalpur in 1954 and began to further sharpen his skills that gave him confidence to participate in photographic contests at National and International levels.Dr. Murthy has won a number of awards in the contests of art photography organized in India and overseas. The Federation of Indian Photography, Kolkata has felicitated him with its “Fellowship” (FFIP) in 2005 for outstanding work and India International Photographic Council has honoured him with “Platinum Grade” in 2008 for achieving more than 500 acceptances in IIPC approved competitions. He Murthy has been a Member of Jury in several All India competitions of photography. He is sincerely interested in Photo Journalism. Murthy’s news reports and photographic coverage of Jabalpur earthquake in 1997 were released by the Press Trust of India (PTI) and United News of India (UNI). He was honoured with Bharattendu National Journalism Award for his manuscript “Mass Communication and its various Dimensions” in 1989. He was assigned to cover many events and issues for a period of 10 years by General Board of Global Mission (GBGM) for their official publication “New World Outlook” in 1997. This work was published from New York.Presently, Murthy is a Guest Faculty at the Jabalpur University and Women’s College to teach Journalism. Earlier he has taught MBA classes at Xidas, Xavier Institute for Development and Action Studies and at St. Aloysius’s College, Jabalpur.
Dr. Murthy is really an artist with pure instincts. His work is full of originality.
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I am delighted to see work of Dr.Murthy and wish to congratulate him for doing such a good work, wish you all the very best Sir.
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