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Behind the Beach #2

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Dr Dharshani Wijewickrama, head of the STD Clinic, Mahamodara Hospital, Galle. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

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Patient Impatience

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Korolawalla Railway Station, Panadura. Shot in September 2017, for ‘The Connected Sri Lankan’, a collaborative study by J Walter Thompson and TNS Kantar on how Sri Lankans engage with the internet.

I’d Rather be Reading

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Vijitha Ranjani Peiris takes the morning train from Moratuwa to her office in a government ministry in Colombo. Shot in September 2017, for ‘The Connected Sri Lankan’, a collaborative study by J Walter Thompson and TNS Kantar, on how Sri Lankans engage with the internet.

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I’d Rather be Reading #2

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Vijitha Ranjani Peiris takes the morning train from Moratuwa to her office in a government ministry in Colombo. Shot in September 2017, for “The Connected Sri Lankan”, a collaborative study by J Walter Thompson and TNS Kantar on how Sri Lankans engage with the internet.

Pottu Putting

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A young woman in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka places a traditional Hindu pottu — or bindhi, as it is better known in India — on her forehead before leaving home for work in the morning. February 2014. Canon EOS 600D and EF 50mm f/1.8 lens at 1/80, f/1.8, and ISO 800.

Water Break

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A tea plucker takes a water break in the hot afternoon sun of Sri Lanka's Central Highlands.
A tea plucker takes a water break in the hot afternoon sun of Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands. Plantation workers like this woman were originally brought in from South India by the British colonial administration to work in near slavery to produce some of the world’s most famous tea brands. After decades of statelessness in independent Sri Lanka, they were eventually granted citizenship, but still live almost as they did for centuries, in poverty, picking tea for a daily wage. Bogawantalawa, February 2013.

Young Woman, Central Highlands, Sri Lanka

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I was photographing this group of tea pluckers taking a mid-morning break in Bagawantalawa, sitting around and talking rapidly like any group of women would, and I noticed this slightly younger woman who seemed to be drifting away in her own thoughts amidst the surrounding chatter. February 2014.