Three Stories Above

• Photographer
  Sudeep Mehta
• Agency / Studio
  Worldwide Photoworks Pvt Ltd
• Prize
  Bronze in Book / Documentary

It was a usual Sunday evening, until our PM Narendra Modi, implemented an immediate nationwide lockdown to deal with the pandemic of COVID-19. Overnight, the entire population of 1.38 billion was confined to their homes, and my life was curbed to my building in Mumbai. This series was shot from a vantage point; the rooftops of my apartment complex. Spending 28 years of my life living in the same place, I barely noticed what was around me. The lockdown forced me to develop this vision and shoot a variety of stories from three storeys above the startling calm of my usually hustling city.