This article is being written in the smaller bedroom of a 2BHK house in Mumbai. The space has been turned around to accommodate a makeshift workstation during the lockdown. The mattress has been taken off the bed and a small side table has been placed on it instead, in order to rest a laptop at the correct height. A plastic chair is doing the job of a traditional office one, and the room itself has amber walls with cupboards of a matching colour. Right now, there is also a half-eaten bag of chips lying beside the side table, waiting to be picked up again once a break is needed from the words.

The point of describing this scene is to give you a visual representation of what one person's life looks like during this period of self-isolation. But there is only so much that words can do when it comes to accurate pictorial descriptions. It's a photograph's function to fill that gap. And Mumbai-based documentary family and wedding photographer Lavanya Ullas embarked on a project a month ago that aims to illustrate exactly what the lives of people in different countries look like when we are all in the same boat together, riding against the wave of a pandemic that has landed us in choppy waters.