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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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Enslaved in Slave Island #13

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One an NSACP* outreach volunteer, the other a single father; both lifelong friends, and recovering addicts. Wekanda Housing Scheme, Stewart Street, Slave Island. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 70mm • f/4 • 1/400 • ISO800 • 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

*The National STD/AIDS Control Programme is a Sri Lankan Health Ministry initiative to coordinate the country’s response to sexually transmitted diseases.

Enslaved in Slave Island #12

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A recovering addict in the Wekanda Housing Scheme, Stewart Street, Slave Island. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/1250 • ISO400 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

Enslaved in Slave Island #11

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PA Fernando, an outreach worker with the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP). Shot on Stewart Street, Slave Island, for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/1250 • ISO200 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Young Poultry Butcher, Colpetty Market

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The cheerful kid dressing chickens for dinner couldn’t quite figure out why I’d want to take his picture, but decided that this hapless rooster deserved a last portrait too. Colombo, April 2014.

Shopkeeper, Pamunuwa, Sri Lanka #13

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Sri Lanka, April 2018.
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Water Therapy #6

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Shermaine Willis, shot in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in October 2018.

Primary School Computer Class, Negombo, Sri Lanka

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Shot on assignment for Smart Media and Gateway College, in October 2018.

Textile Salesman, Maharagama, Sri Lanka #4

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Textile Salesman, Maharagama, Sri Lanka #4 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
The textile bazaar that stretches almost 2km, from Maharagama to Pamununuwa, just southeast of Colombo, is a highly competitive place, with hundreds of tiny shops and stalls vying with each other for the throngs of customers who visit each day. This salesman’s job is to sing, dance, and shout to passing people, extolling the quality and value of the wares inside one of the little shops. When he saw me, he popped back into the shop and reappeared in wig and sunglasses to ham it up for the camera. Sri Lanka, April 2018.

The Face of Shock

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St Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade, Sri Lanka #11 by Son of the Morning Light on 500px.com
Mr Tuan Rishard, a Muslim Malay resident of Kochchikade remains shocked by the carnage wreaked on his Christian neighbours by National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), an ISIS-affiliated Islamic extremist group. Five days before, on Easter Sunday morning, 21st April 2019, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the crowded St Anthony’s Shrine, just around the corner from Mr Rishard’s home in Newham Square, killing over a hundred worshippers. Colombo, Sri Lanka (licensed to Polaris Images).