Women on the Wall

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.}

Twilight on the Wall

The southwestern ramparts of the Galle Fort, from the Flagrock Bastion. The unsightly block on the horizon, beyond the Triton Bastion, is the new Oceanfront Condominiums building at Dadalla which, along with the Araliya Resort on Rumassala, blights the view both up and down the coast. Sri Lanka, January 2022.

^{*Shot on a Canon EOS 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/f4L, courtesy Canon/Metropolitan.}

Contragraph

An outside steel stairway connects floors at the Pedro Tea Factory in Nuwara Eliya, in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. The tea plantation (called an ‘estate’) that supplies this factory with its raw green leaves is one of the oldest in the country, created in 1880 (the original factory was destroyed in a fire in the 1940s). Once the pinnacle of Sri Lanka’s exports, tea has faltered in recent years, production and distribution hobbled by a reluctance to modernise and adapt to changing markets and trends. Shot on assignment for Serendib, the inflight magazine of Sri Lankan Airlines. My photo story, ‘The Nuwara Eliya Season in Spring‘, ran in the April 2017 issue.

The End of Sleep

A leafless creeper clings to a crumbling castle wall, waiting for the spring sun to wake it from its winter hibernation. Burg Thurant, Alken, Germany. April 2017.

Rococo Doorway, Liebfrauenkirche, Koblenz, Germany

While the main structure of the Church of Our Lady is Romanesque in style, there are Gothic and Baroque portions, reflecting the many periods of its construction and expansion from 1205 to the present, including an extensive renovation and reconstruction in the 1950s to remedy its near complete destruction in an Allied bombing raid in 1944.  The doors, shot here in summer 2018, date back to 1767, and are in the Rococo style.

Ruins on Pidurangala Mountain, Sri Lanka #3

This ruined temple, just below the top of Pidurangala, dates to the 10th century. Shot for my photo story, “Sigiriya and Pidurangala“, which runs in the April 2018 issue of Serendib magazine.

The Forgotten Temple

The distinctive architecture of a ‘pabbata viharaya’, a form of rural monastery first appearing around the 7th century, is seen in the ruins of the Dakkinagiri Viharaya’s wall and moat. Shot for my photo story, ‘A Mountain Monastery Forgotten by Time‘; the cover feature of the March 2018 issue of Serendib magazine.

Pedro Tea Factory, Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka

One of the oldest tea plantations in Sri Lanka, the Pedro Tea Estate introduced tea to Nuwara Eliya in 1886, making it the second district in the country to start growing it. The Kandy District was the first; James Taylor first planted tea at Loolecondera in the late 1860s. Shot on assignment for Serendib, the inflight magazine of SriLankan Airlines, for my photo-story, ‘The Nuwara Eliya Season in Spring‘, which ran in the April 2017 issue.

Rampart Street

Galle Fort, Sri Lanka, December 2013

Twilight in Galle

Queen Street in the Galle Fort with the Maritime Museum, to the left, set into the Commandment Bastion of the northeast ramparts. January 2013.