The present article reports, for the first time, the photophysical aspects of non-covalent interaction of a fullerene derivative, namely, C 60 pyrrolidine tris-acid ethyl ester (PyC 60 ) with a designed bisporphyrin (1) (having carbazole spacer unit) in toluene. Absorption spectrophotometric studies reveal that decrease in the absorption intensity of the Soret absorption band of 1 takes in presence of PyC 60 in the solvent studied. Steady state fluorescence studies reveal efficient quenching of fluorescence intensity of 1 in presence of PyC 60 . Static quenching model explores a binding constant (K S ) value of 2,910 dm 3 mol −1 in toluene. Time resolved emission study establishes static quenching mechanism for the investigated supramolecule in non-polar solvent. Molecular mechanics calculations in vacuo evoke the single projection structure of the PyC 60 -1 complex and interpret the geometrical arrangement of both PyC 60 and 1 during non-covalent complexation.