How the pandemic has affected photographers at the Gateway of India

Not too long ago, visitors at the Gateway of India got themselves beautiful memorabilia in the form of a photograph. Photographers waited with their cameras looking to capture the happy moments of these visitors who come to see the Gateway of India. But now with the partial lockdown, and restrictions in travel, there are barely any visitors at the Gateway of India, while the photographers wait.
It has been reported that the pandemic has hit photographers at the Gateway of India. The travel sector on a whole has been greatly affected, and these photographers are no different. The photographers who once used to woo tourists with the cameras, mostly those coming from outside the city, are now helpless. According to them, they are not earning anything compared to what they did before the pandemic. It is now being reported that after the initial relaxation on the lockdown that happened in the month of October last year, photographers had begun to earn once more. But things went back to being hopeless after January 2021.

According to a photographer, there were about 400 photographers at the Gateway of India, and the Taj Hotel at Colaba. But the pandemic has forced most of them to return to their hometowns, and only about 100 of them are left now. Some others have begun to work in other areas, such as construction, or as vegetable vendors.
There was a time when these photographers used to get about 500 to 700 customers in a day, and that has now come down to 150, and on some days there are none. With people scared of travelling at the moment, most visitors at this iconic spot are locals.