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Hospitaller

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A St John’s Ambulance sergeant on duty during Vesak. Navam Mawatha, Slave Island. May 2023.

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“Tickets, Please!” #2

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The entrance hall of the Victorian-style Maradana Railway Station. Built in 1908, Maradana is Colombo’s second-oldest operational railway station. Shot on assignment for Serendib, in which my story, ‘A Visit to the Maradana Railway Station‘, one of the few almost completely black and white features published by that travel magazine, ran in June 2017.
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Schoolgirl, Kandy, Sri Lanka

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Shot on assignment for Smart Media and Gateway College, in November 2018.
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Freedom from Fear

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Schoolboy, Colombo, Sri Lanka. February 2020.
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Station Master, Demodara, Sri Lanka

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Very much the lord of his small realm, a Sri Lanka Railways station master walks the length of a mixed goods and passenger train on its way to Badulla, the end destination of what is now considered one of the world’s great train journeys. Shot on assignment for The New York Times; specifically for award-winning Frugal Traveler columnist Lucas Peterson’s piece, “An Island Nation that is Best Savored Slowly“, which ran on 30th January 2019.
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We’re Off!

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A railway guard waves off his train from the small Demodara station, close to Ella, in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. Shot on assignment for The New York Times; specifically for award-winning travel journalist Lucas Peterson’s piece, “An Island Nation that is Best Savored Slowly”, which ran in the Frugal Traveler column on 30th January 2019.
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Policeman, St Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade, Colombo #2

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A policeman walks away from the bomb-damaged St Anthony’s Shrine in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo. Sri Lanka, April 26th 2019 (licensed to Polaris Images).
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Naval Infantry, St Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade

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A Sri Lanka Navy infantryman stands guard at the approaches to the bomb-damaged St Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade. The famous church, situated close to the Colombo Port, was devastated by a suicide bomber on Easter Sunday morning, 21st April 2019. More than a hundred worshippers were killed here, while elsewhere, suicide bombers from an ISIS-affiliated local group called Thowheed Jamath simultaneously blew up two other Roman Catholic churches, and three Colombo hotels, raising the death toll to over 250, with over 500 wounded (licensed to Polaris Images).

Station Master, Ella, Sri Lanka

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The Ella Railway Station Master inspects a train that has entered his realm. Shot on assignment for the New York Times; specifically for award winning travel journalist Lucas Peterson’s piece, “An Island Nation that is Best Savored Slowly”, which ran in the Frugal Traveler column of the New York Times Travel section on 30th January 2019.
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