Tag: Keyzer Street

Closing Time on Keyzer Street

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Shutters begin to fall with the twilight in Pettah, Colombo’s shopping and market district. January 2023.

• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •

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Karawala Mudalali

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A dry fish merchant (or karawala mudalali), surrounded by his pungent stock. Keyzer Street, Pettah. January 2023.

• 22mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •

Dinner in Pettah

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A kiosk on Keyzer Street provides a light takeaway to weary workers heading for home. Colombo, January 2023.

• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •

Karawala Karayo

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Dry fish merchants, surrounded by their pungent stock. Keyzer Street, Pettah. January 2023.

• 14mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO2500 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •

Evening Tea in Pettah

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A kiosk on the corner of Keyzer and 3rd Cross streets provides sustenance to shoppers and departing city workers alike. Colombo, January 2023.

• 26mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •

Breakfast in Pettah #2

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With an egg rotti on the griddle, one of the guys running a small food kiosk down a still dark alley off Keyzer Street gave me a few seconds to shoot his portrait. Colombo, September 2022.

• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/50 • ISO800 • Canon R6 & RF 35/1.8 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Breakfast in Pettah

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An early customer waits for his rotti and tea in an alley off Keyzer Street. September 2022.

• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/25 • ISO400 • Canon R6 & RF 35/1.8 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

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Meanwhile, at the end of the passageway, breakfast service is already in full swing.

• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 • ISO800 •

Breakfast Kiosk, Keyser Street, Pettah

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Unaware of the economic catastrophe about to overrun him in few short weeks, a food vendor sets up his kiosk, selling sandwiches, buns, and rolls, in the Pettah, Colombo’s market district, in mid-January 2020.
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Stay Home, They Say #2

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A naattami pushes his empty cart down a crowded Keyzer Street, a week and a half before Sri Lanka declared its first coronavirus case on January 27th. 
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Teatime at the Onion Store

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Happier times on Keyzer Street, a mere three months ago.
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