Maradana – Son of the Morning Light

Planning for Disease

March 23, 2023March 22, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/1u9a4462.jpg — Nadika Fernandopulle, a project manager of the Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka; shot at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme, de Saram Place, Maradana, on assignment for *Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January* 2022.

^{• 50mm • f/1.6 • 1/640 • ISO500 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan}

Lab Rats

January 23, 2023January 24, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/1u9a4269.jpg — Laboratory testing at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP), De Saram Place, Maradana. *Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.*

^{• 105mm • f/4 • 1/50 • ISO1600 • 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan}

Chief Tech

August 30, 2022January 27, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/1u9a4292.jpg — SAH Attanayake, the senior medical laboratory technologist, at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP), De Saram Place, Maradana. *Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.*

^{• 50mm • f/4 • 1/320 • ISO400 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.}

Transgress

February 11, 2022 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/1u9a4382.jpg — 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.}

Caution, Photographer at Work

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/1u9a4315.jpg — *De Saram Place, Maradana. January 2022.**

^{*shot on a Canon EOS 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.}

Signs of the Plague

July 30, 2021 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/img_1074.jpg — *Maradana, Colombo. July 2021.*

“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky. This sense of being abandoned, which might in time have given characters a finer temper, began, however, by sapping them to the point of futility.”

^{— Albert Camus The Plague}