Remember the image of officials in Delhi spraying sanitisers at pedestrians in the national capital amid the Covid lockdown? While it became part of the reportage on the government's handling of the Covid crisis, the story of the pandemic's impact on the photojournalist found little media attention.
K Asif, 41, was working for India Today Group’s Mail Today, when he shot the picture in April 2020. Months later, Mail Today shut shop, referring to the pandemic in its announcement, and Asif found himself without a job, struggling to make ends meet.
