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Believe

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A beachboy stands in front of the large hillside villa he is building with his German partner. Hikkaduwa, 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.

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Women on the Wall

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The Flagrock Bastion, Rampart Street, Galle Fort. In the distance is Point Utrecht, with the lighthouse built by the British in 1939 and, below it, the Meeran Jumma Masjid, a mosque built in 1904, in the distinct style of a Portuguese baroque cathedral. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.*

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

International Relations

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Galle Fort, Sri Lanka. January 2022. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund.

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

Golden Days

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Souvenir sellers on Unawatuna Beach pitch their wares to foreign tourists in January 2018; a happier time, before the Corona virus turned off the tap of international travel, depriving many in Sri Lanka of their livelihood.

Queuing for Holy Water, Temple of the Tooth, Sri Lanka

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Shot for The New York Times piece, An Island Nation that is Best Savored Slowly, which ran in the Frugal Traveler column on 30th January 2019.
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Taking a Break in Kandy

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Shermaine Willis and Anuradha Perera, shot on the streets of Kandy, Sri Lanka, for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy, in October 2018.
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Museum Entrance, Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka #2

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Anuradha Perera and Shermaine Willis, shot for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy, in October 2018. The 18th century Temple of the Tooth, built as a palace for Sri Viraparakrama Narendrasinha, the last Sinhalese king of Lanka, it was converted soon after into a shrine to house the Tooth Relic of the Buddha.

Jungle Girl

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Anuradha Perera, shot on assignment in the Udawattekele Forest Reserve, for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy. Also known as the Thahanci Kele (or Forbidden Forest), this 257-acre sanctuary was once a private reserve of the Kandyan royal family, and closed to commoners. Sri Lanka, October 2018.

Flower Offerings, Temple of the Tooth, Kandy

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Shermaine Willis and Anuradha Perera, shot on location for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy.

In the Steps of the Pansakulikas

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A monk descends Ritigala Mountain where, in the 9th century, King Sena of Anuradhapura built a monastery for the Pansakulikas or “Rag Robes”, a particularly ascetic order of Buddhist monks who fashioned their robes from the shrouds of the dead, scavenged from graves and funeral pyres. Shot in December 2017.
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