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Abundance

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Sri Lankan rice and curry of (clockwise from bottom left) gotukola mallum (shredded Indian pennywort), curried pumpkin in coconut milk, fried leeks, jackfruit seeds with cabbage, stir-fried carrot, deep fried bitter gourd, date and lime jam, and (in the centre) kaluheeneti rice and chicken curry.
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Breakfast in Pettah #7

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Egg rottis are oiled, stretched, folded, and readied for the hot skillet. Wolfendhal Street, Kotahena. October 2022.

• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 • ISO400 • R6 & RF35/1.8 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

Breakfast in Pettah #6

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A cook at work on Wolfendhal Street. October 2022.

• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 • ISO160 • R6, with RF35/1.8 from Canon/Metropolitan

Breakfast in Pettah #4

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Wolfendhal Street, Kotahena. October 2022.

• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 • ISO160 • R6 & RF35/1.8 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

“Those Days when We were Young…”

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Thus begins the familiar tale often heard when older people lament the prices of things today. But in a Sri Lanka staggering under an economic disaster unknown in modern history, skyrocketing inflation has made the ‘Good Ol’ Days’ seem like just yesterday. In this April 2018 picture, shot for a J Walter Thompson market study, salted prawns at the FOSE Market, in Pettah, Colombo’s main market district, go for just Rs100 (about 65 US cents at the time) for 100g. Today, the rupee price of this is almost seven times higher (though still just under $2, due to the nose-diving rupee).

• 105mm • f/4 • 1/50 • ISO400 •

Sustaining the Revolution

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A street food vendor sells fresh rotti and vadai at Gotagogama, the ad hoc village of tents, shacks, and portable toilets that have sprung up on Galle Face Green, in downtown Colombo. Set up almost a month ago, the village is home to a core of protestors calling for the resignation of Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his government, who’s corruption and ineptitude have been blamed for creating the worst economic crisis in the country’s modern history. In addition to the resident dissidents, Gotagogama sees a constant ebb and flow of protestors from all over the city and its suburbs, driven by widespread shortages of electricity, fuel, cooking gas, and medicine, to join in the strident call for the government to step down. Sri Lanka, May 2022.

• 18mm • f/3.5 • 1/100 • ISO3200 •

Special Feature: The Quality of Memory (or How I Discovered that Breudhers are Like Boobs)

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There was in fact no such thing as the ‘best’ breudher.”

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Traditional Dutch Burgher breudher, a round yeasty cake with the distinct shape it takes from the broodtulband, a fluted mould it is baked in (and from which it likely gets its name). Though believed to be Dutch or Flemish in origin, it does not exist in the Netherlands today, and can only be found in the former Dutch maritime territories of Colombo, Cochin, and Malacca.
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Slow Food

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Sri Lankan beef curry cooked for an hour and a half over a low flame. June 2021.
Beef topside.