A mass communication student, Jyoti Shrestha, as a part of her subject degree, had to study photojournalism in 2013. She started photography but not on a regular basis. Being fascinated by colours, Shrestha enjoyed experimenting with one. Before photography, she was into arts and used to make mandalas, doodles, and abstract paintings.

“As I liked playing with colours, I was captivated by the thought of capturing those colours through photography and I was driven by it ever since”, she adds. Her interest in photography came as no surprise to her parents. She grew up watching her father designing coins and prostheses, and her mother making handmade garments.

“One day my father approached me to let him know if I wanted a camera, and that he would get one for me”, she adds further. Her cousins used to mock her and there were many who did not believe in her, but her closest friends did. So, none of it mattered to her.