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Twin-Light Selfie

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Ich bins at home. April 2023. Shot with a single continuous light LED panel, and a bit of filler from a computer screen.

• 70mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 • ISO160 • R6 & RF24-70/2.8L • Viltrox VL-D85T 85W 15.5 x 14.3″ LED with diffuser • 100% brightness • 5600K •

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Shalini

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The Ballet School of Colombo, September 2022.

• 72mm • f/4 • 1/80 • ISO1000 • Canon R6 & RF 24-105/4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

• 24mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO400 •

Trading the Exotic

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Tharindu* was introduced to me as a former beach boy, now volunteering for the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) in Hikkaduwa, helping to educate other male sex workers on staying safe. While the obvious attraction of the trade is monetary, with many beach boys hoping to strike it big by marrying a westerner and emigrating, or being bought property locally, a less acknowledged factor is the easy availability of sex with exotic foreigners. The latter can be as addictive as the money, and at the time the photograph was taken it was unclear whether Tharindu had completely given up working the beach. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/640 • ISO100 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

*Name changed.

Snake Eater

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Crested serpent eagle (Spilornis cheela) Wilpattu National park, Sri Lanka, May 2022.

• 200mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 • ISO400 •

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Transgress

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Trans woman, De Saram Place, Maradana. January 2022. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund.

*shot on a Canon EOS 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Dependence

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Beachboy, Hikkaduwa. January 2022.* Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund.

*shot on a Canon EOS 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Eyes in the Past

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Poosari, Naagapoosani Amman Kovil, Nainativu Island. March 2014.* The old priest tending to devotees at an outside shrine, would stand perfectly still after each batch of worshippers had moved on, his face expressionless, eyes seeming to watch something far in the past. He would rouse himself to action each time he was approached, then drift off again when no longer needed.

*With the advance of editing software, I have been revisiting some of my older photos. This one is a colour edit of a black and white I posted back in 2014.