Overture to Twilight

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

^{• 50mm • f/4 • 1/500 • ISO400 • 5DMkIV & EF 24-105/4L courtesy Canon/Metropolitan}

The Daily Commute

Oceanpick staff take the morning boat from Cod Bay to one of the company ocean farms off Old Gun Point. Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. February 2024.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/125 • ISO320 • Canon R6, RF24-70/2.8L & circular polariser •}

^{• 70mm • f/3.5 • 1/320 • ISO100 •}

^{• 70mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 • ISO100 •}

^{• 70mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 • ISO100 •}

^{• 70mm • f/3.5 • 1/640 • ISO100 •}

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 • ISO100 •}

^{• 70mm • f/2.8 • 1/1000 • ISO100 •}

Dawn Runner

Lake Weras, Bellanwila, Sri Lanka. January 2024.

^{• 23mm • f/11 • 1/8 • ISO100 • Canon R6 & RF14-35/4L on tripod •}

Restricted Parking

Multi-day trawlers jammed into Cod Bay, Trincomalee. February 2024.

^{• 70mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 • ISO100 • Canon R6, RF24-70/2.8L & circular polariser •}

^{• 70mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 • ISO100 •}

^{• 70mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 • ISO100 •}

^{• 70mm • f/2.8 • 1/800 • ISO100 •}

Light Moments

Morning over the Valachenai Lagoon, Sri Lanka, shot from Nasuvantivu. February 2024. Though I’d set up with my tripod by 6am, the eastern skies were stingy. I was lucky to catch this brief moment of colour before the tail end of the monsoon blew in and I packed up and headed off.

^{• 14mm • f/11 • 1/8 • ISO100 • Canon R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Hoping for the Light

1st January 2024. Weras Lake, Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka.

^{• 35mm • f/11 • 1/5 • ISO100 • Canon R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Steel Buffaloes at Rest #2

Rice farmers wash the mud off their tractors, just as their fathers and grandfathers would have once done with their plough animals; behind them, a long day of ploughing the rain-filled paddy fields of Sammanthurai, in eastern Sri Lanka. October 2023.

^{• 24mm • f/8 • 1/125 • ISO250 • Canon R6 & RF24-70/2.8L •}

Womb of Gold

Irrigated paddy fields await the seed. Sammanthurai, Sri Lanka. October 2023.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/1600 • ISO100 • Canon R6 & RF24-70/2.8L •}

Motosurf Colombo

Some photos from the first day of the Motosurf Continental Cup Asia 2023, on the Beira Lake, Colombo. November 2023.

^{• 400mm • f/4 • 1/1600 • ISO100 • Canon R6, with an EF400/2.8L from Canon/Metropolitan} 

The Sun Sets in the East

Addalaichenai, Sri Lanka. October 2023.

^{• 50mm • f/8 • 1/50 • ISO100 • Canon R6 & RF24-70/2.8L •}

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it.”

– Jasper Johns

I first read Johns’ words at one of his exhibitions, in Köln, in the late 1990s and, over the years, it has come to represent more than ever the way I see my photography. I often find the pictures inside my photographs days, sometimes weeks, after I have shot them.