Gandhidham Photo House

Our shop is at D-121 in Jawahar Chowk. We’ve been taking photos and helping people with their pictures for a long time in Gandhidham. It’s a small place, and it usually smells a bit like the chemicals we used to use, even though everything is mostly digital now. We do passport photos, family portraits, and sometimes people bring in old, torn pictures for us to try and fix. It’s nice to see the history of the families around here. Kachchh has some great light for photography, but mostly we are inside the studio. The shop gets a bit dusty because of the wind outside, so we spend a lot of time wiping down the lenses and the counters. We aren't some big high-end studio with a lot of assistants. It’s just us. Sometimes the printer acts up right when a customer is waiting, and we have to fiddle with it to get it going again. That’s just how it goes sometimes. People come to us because we are right here in the neighborhood and they know we’ve been here forever. We don't have a fancy website or anything like that. We just open the doors, turn on the lights, and wait for people to come in with their memories. It’s a quiet life, but we get to see a lot of smiling faces when they see their prints. We try to be patient with everyone who walks through the door.