Planning for Disease

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Nadika Fernandopulle, a project manager of the Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka; shot at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme, de Saram Place, Maradana, on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.6 • 1/640 • ISO500 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

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Enslaved in Slave Island #14

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Iresha Wijesinghe, lab assistant at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) clinic tending to needle users in Slave Island. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 • ISO200 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4 courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

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.

• 24mm • f/4 • 1/80 • ISO800 • 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

Mango Season

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Mangoes, and the ever-in-season Sri Lankan bananas (or plantains, as they’re commonly called here), being sold from a cart on Central Road, in Wolvendaal, in October 2022.* If you aren’t ready to take them home to ripen to sweetness, a case of exploding mangoes may be instantly had with the liberal sprinkling of chilli and salt.

• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 • ISO200 • R6 & RF24-70/2.8L •

COVID wasn’t the Only Disease #2

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Dr WCJK Jayakody interviews an out patient from behind an anti-COVID barrier at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme, De Saram Place, Maradana. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 24mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO1600 • Canon 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/320 • ISO200 • Canon 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan

Enslaved in Slave Island #8

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Journalist Aanya Piyari Wipulasena interviews a needle user on Stewart Street, in Slave Island. With her are an outreach team from the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP). Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 24mm • f/4 • 1/320 • ISO800 • Canon 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Enslaved in Slave Island #7

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Shaniya Elayan, programme coordinator, at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) clinic tending to needle users in Slave Island. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/1.4 • 1/250 • ISO200 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

Chief Tech

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SAH Attanayake, the senior medical laboratory technologist, at the National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP), De Saram Place, Maradana. Shot on assignment for Panos Pictures and The Global Fund, in January 2022.

• 50mm • f/4 • 1/320 • ISO400 • 5DMkIV & EF 50/1.4, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.

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.