Lockdown like summer vacation for Rohan Shrestha; photographer uses time to ideate concepts for future shoots

Because his job requires him to be on-ground, WFH sees celebrity photographer Rohan Shrestha adapt.

“My work from home set-up is a little vague and I’m still in the process of structuring it,” says photographer Rohan Shrestha. “Our jobs demand us to be on-ground and one of the biggest drawbacks is that I’m unable to shoot at the moment; I am treating this like a summer vacation,” he adds. This time also gives him the opportunity to ideate and put concepts together for shoots in the future. In a quick interview, Shrestha gives us his lockdown lowdown.

On hold

Like I said earlier as well, working from home for a photographer can get very difficult. At the moment, everything has been put on hold and we can’t do much. A lot of other people in the industry are also trying their hand at facetime shoots, which I’m not very comfortable with.

Shoot in
I’ve currently been capturing everything through my phone within the confines of my house. My work has mostly been focused towards portraits, human subjects or pets so right now, I am just shooting my cats.

Master of some
For a very long time, I have lived away all by myself away from my family. Hence I have been running the house on my own now for a long-time. It’s a little different now because there’s no house help. But I personally feel, I have mastered the art of ‘jhadoo’ and ‘potcha’, but haven’t been able to get myself to washing the dishes so well.

Sharing is caring
When it comes to food, I have been lucky enough to get some fantastic food from my neighbours. While I can cook, I’m not really good at it and so getting from them helps. Once the lockdown ends, I would love to go to a nice restaurant for a meal, it would just be exciting to leave home and interact with people.