Rojan Shrestha — Photographer

Rojan Shrestha — Work

If you could do it all again

As technology advances, a new reality unfolds—a parallel universe known as the Metaverse, a virtual world that offers boundless opportunities yet poses a silent threat to human connection. In this space, people are drawn away from tangible interactions, spending more time in immersive digital environments that fulfill every social and personal need. The allure of the virtual world becomes so compelling that the physical world begins to feel distant, like a strange planet, leaving individuals confined to rooms that become their entire worlds. Through the lens of one individual's experience, this series explores the consequences of our growing dependence on immersive technologies that tempt us to forsake tangible reality for meticulously crafted digital environments. By blurring the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, these images explore how, despite advancements meant to connect us, technology may instead entrap us, severing the ties to our shared humanity. Are these shifts inevitable? And what happens when the allure of limitless digital freedom undermines our authentic connections?

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About Rojan Shrestha

Rojan Shrestha is a visual artist and photojournalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal, working across editorial, personal, and commissioned projects. Working primarily with the photographic image, his practice moves between documentary attention and more conceptual, staged work, across themes of memory, technology, identity, and space. Apart from his personal work, he has worked with Pahilo Post and Bizmandu, and contributes to NurPhoto, with work published by The Times UK, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. As a photojournalist he covers politics, protest, social issues, and disaster in Nepal.

Photojournalist, based in Kathmandu, Nepal
Working across editorial, personal, and commissioned projects
Available for assignments & prints

Rojan Shrestha

Photographer

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