Pavement Refreshment

Keyzer Street, Pettah. October 2023.

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/400 • ISO250 • Canon R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Breakfast in Pettah #11

Deep fried chicken, the breakfast of champions. Keyzer Street, Colombo. December 2023.

^{• 24mm (38mm equiv) • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO1250 • Canon R6 & EF-S24/2.8 •}

Pettah Snap Portraits #2

Keyzer Street, Colombo. December 2023.

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO100 • Canon R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Tea and the News on Keyzer Street

Mornings in Pettah, Colombo. September 2023.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 • ISO100 • Canon R6 & EF-S24/2.8 •}

Delivered Straight to the Nose

Garlic delivery. Keyzer Street, Pettah. April 2018.

^{• 24mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO400 • Canon 6D & EF24-105/4L •}

Parippu Drop

An unusually well-dressed naattami (the urban Sri Lankan version of a dockyard stevedore) loads his distinctive two-wheeled cart with sacks of lentils trucked in from a mill outside Colombo. Fresh produce and dry goods arrive each morning in the city’s market district of Pettah, and must be unloaded and carried down a warren of narrow streets and lanes to the wholesale stores where they are bought and traded to keep the restaurants, supermarkets, and grocery stores of Colombo stocked. Keyzer Street, January 2020.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 • ISO400 • Canon 600D & EF-S24/2.8 •}

Knowing Your Onions

And potatoes, garlic, rice, and dry fish. All along Keyzer Street, in the Pettah area of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, buyers and sellers discuss and negotiate prices for wholesale produce. January 2020.

^{• 24mm • f/2.8 • 1/640 • ISO400 • Canon 600D & EF-S24/2.8 •}

Closing Time on Keyzer Street

Shutters begin to fall with the twilight in Pettah, Colombo’s shopping and market district. January 2023.

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Karawala Mudalali

A dry fish merchant (or karawala mudalali), surrounded by his pungent stock. Keyzer Street, Pettah. January 2023.

^{• 22mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •}

Dinner in Pettah

A kiosk on Keyzer Street provides a light takeaway to weary workers heading for home. Colombo, January 2023.

^{• 35mm • f/4 • 1/125 • ISO4000 • R6 & RF14-35/4L •}