Focus on rooftops where homebound lives played out

The pictures capture that altered sense of time that many have reported experiencing during the lockdown - a sense that time had slowed down

Walkers in Hyderabad’s KBR Park are being treated to an unusual spectacle right now — a unique photo exhibition organised by Indian Photo Festival 2020 (on till December 13), displaying a series of vignettes from everyday lives during the pandemic and lockdown. What sets these images apart is that they are all of ordinary people who have, if momentarily, escaped the lockdown to their rooftops and balconies. Consequently, the exhibition, entitled “Rooftop” (also available on India Photo Festival’s website) will seem familiar to everyone who has experienced the lockdown.

Madhu Gopal Rao, Hyderabad-based photographer who began this photo project in the