street portrait – Son of the Morning Light

Breakfast in Pettah #9

March 15, 2023March 14, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/img_0200crop.jpg — *A potential customer checks his resources before ordering breakfast from a stall on New Moor Street, in Hulftsdorp. October 2022.*

^{• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/2000 • ISO200 • R6 & RF 35/1.8 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan}

Karawala Mudalali

March 10, 2023March 9, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/img_0701.jpg — *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 •}

A Soupçon of Refreshment #2

March 2, 2023March 1, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/img_0636.jpg — *Bowls of hot soup are served up from a cart on Prince Street,* *for porters, vendors, and evening shoppers in Pettah. January 2023.*

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/60 • ISO400 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Nadina

February 17, 2023February 17, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/2012-11-25-11.11.33.jpg — *Sugar Bistro, Colombo. November 2012.*

^{• 46mm • f/5 • 1/60 • ISO400 • 600D & EF-S18-55/3.5-5.6 •}

Enslaved in Slave Island #13

February 15, 2023February 15, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

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.}

Sometimes Life Gives You Oranges

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/img_0646.jpg — *Six for two-hundred bucks, on 2nd Cross Street, Pettah. January 2023.*

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO1250 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

COVID wasn’t the Only Disease #3

February 2, 2023February 1, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2023/02/1u9a3332e2.jpg — *Buddhika Lakmal*, *a National STD/AIDS Control Programme* (NSACP) outreach worker, poses in full PPE outside his Slave Island clinic, in January 2022. NSACP mobile teams continued to operate throughout the pandemic, and Buddhika is about to head out to nearby Stewart Street to take blood samples, and hand out HIV self-tests, needles, condoms, and educational literature to heroin addicts. *Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund*.

^{• 105mm • f/4 • 1/500 • ISO125 • 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan}

Karawala Karayo

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 David BlackerLeave a comment

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

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

Someone’s at the Door #2

December 29, 2022December 28, 2022 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/4m8a8232b-1.jpg — The Aluth Maligawa Entrance, Temple of the Tooth, Kandy. *Sri Lanka, October 2018.* *Shermaine Willis and Anuradha Perera, for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy.*

^{• 24mm • f/8 • 1/2000 • ISO800 • 5DMkIV & EF24-105/4L •}

Street Meditative

December 22, 2022 David BlackerLeave a comment

https://sonofthemorninglight.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/img_0021.jpg — *Wolfendhal Street, Pettah. October 2022.*

^{• 35mm • f/2.8 • 1/160 • ISO125 • R6, with RF35/1.8 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan}