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Fresh Fruit

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Fruit & Veges at the Colpetty Market #3 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
The Colpetty Market, Colombo, Sri Lanka. April 2018. To learn more about this interesting old doyen of the city, check out my photo story, ‘Prevailing Against All Odds‘, in Serendib, the inflight magazine of Sri Lankan Airlines.

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A Night at the Fruit Market, Kandy #3

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A Night at the Fruit Market, Kandy #3 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
Anuradha Perera, shot on assignment for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy, at the Kandy Municipal Market. Sri Lanka, October 2018.

Dialogin

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Dialogin' #2 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
A naattami, a stevedore-like labourer at the Manning Market, in Pettah, wears a tshirt advertising an internet service provider. In spite of the fact that mobile phone-based internet access in Sri Lanka has far outpaced desktop and laptop access, and made internet usage widespread, many of the country’s poorer classes have no entry to the web, and little interest in it. Colombo, April 2018.

A Night at the Fruit Market, Kandy #5

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A Night at the Fruit Market, Kandy #5 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
Shermaine Willis and Anuradha Perera, shot on assignment for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy. Sri Lanka, October 2018.

The Carrot Man

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Manning Market, Colombo, Sri Lanka #22 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
Manning Market, Colombo, Sri Lanka. April 2018.

FOSE Market Refugees #2

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The FOSE Market, Pettah, Sri Lanka #8 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
The Federation of Self-Employees Market, in the Colombo district of Pettah, seems to attract a fair share of the city’s detritus, trying to scrape out a living in a country without much safety nets for the very poor. This lady — dressed in the robes of a Buddhist nun — seems to be struggling with dementia, talking out loud to herself, explaining how the market was built by her brother. Sri Lanka, April 2018.

FOSE Market Refugees

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The FOSE Market, Pettah, Sri Lanka #3 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
The Federation of Self-Employees Market, in the Colombo district of Pettah, seems to attract a fair share of the city’s detritus, trying to scrape out a living in a country without much safety nets for the very poor. This gentleman earns a meagre daily wage selling cloth shopping bags to shoppers at the market, hoping they will switch from the usual plastic “siri-siri” bags that are choking Sri Lanka’s environment. He quietly asked me to take his picture. April 2018.

Dawn at the Manning Market, Pettah

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Manning Market, Colombo, Sri Lanka #14 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
One of the largest wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in Sri Lanka, the Manning Market, in the Pettah area of Colombo, is at its busiest at daybreak. April 2018.

Off-Duty Naattamis, at the Manning Market, Pettah

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Manning Market, Colombo, Sri Lanka #21 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
Their heavy lifting done for the day, two naattamis — the Sri Lankan version of stevedores or longshoremen — head out of Pettah’s famous Manning Market. Colombo, Sri Lanka. April 2018.