The narrow road from Pinkande to Katudampe was shiny black newly tarred, clearly marked on the edges with white unbroken lines.On either side we passed lush green paddy fields, houses surrounded by small garden plots with coconut, mango, banana and fruit trees. A solitary young Buddhist priest walked briskly, the bright orange of his robes, matching the setting sun that ...
Sri Lankan grandmother by Shahidul Alam One burnt saucepan, 20 pages of editing, half a dozen lumosity exercises later am bored. This is life after retirement. I should probably jump on the treadmill but it is easier to turn to FB and there she was — a portrait of a Sri Lankan grandmother by the Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam. The years ...
In my hand is a pale blue aerogramme with a coloured photo of a beach scene at the back. The year 1977, the address on it is 2, Solok Glugor Penang, Malaysia, the sender B. Kirtisinghe , 306, Hikkaduwa, with a scrawled arrow from the word Hikkaduw on the sender’s address pointing to the beach photo. Inside my mother had ...
Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 31st January - 26th May 2013 "I like it when one is not certain of what one sees. We don't know why the photographer has taken such a picture. If we look and look, we begin to see and are still left with the pleasure of uncertainty." . "It is not where it is or what it is that matters, but how you see it." Read more… 2,239 more words
The sea is a dull green. The beach strewn with jetsam and flotsam — broken coral pieces, empty bottles, rubbish, green and white dried seaweeds. A little girl skips along the shore, followed by a man carrying a pensive sad looking toddler that he is trying to feed from a plastic milk bottle. I stop to talk to him and ...
Grab the chance to be exhibited in a gallery space in central London, to win cash prizes and to receive some great recognition with Life Framer International Photography Award – “An instant”: http://www.photography-news.com/2013/04/life-framer-international-photography.html Life Framer is a monthly photography competition for the present day. It’s a platform designed to source creative work and showcase outstanding photography. Every month the organizers ...
A photographer who raised the question about difference in submitting entries via the Face Book link, for “The Other Hundred Project” was concerned about the loss of rights when he came across following set of rules: “6. Rights Granted by you: By entering this Contest, you agree that: the Administrator, Strutta, and their respective licensees, successors and assigns will have ...
The excited voice on the phone said “Chulie I am in Sri Lanka, are you here?” Sadly I wasn’t – I was stuck in a hospital in Dhaka with pneumonia. The caller was Nirvair Singh Rai, a young Indian friend I met while working at Drik. Today, we caught up on GChat. “I am in love with your homeland, and ...
Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 23rd Feb 2013 - 12th May 2013 Another fascinating posting, this time featuring Australian colonial photography. In 1951, a hoard of 3,500 glass plate negatives from the nineteenth century was discovered in a garden shed in Chatswood. In time, the find proved to be the most important photographic documentation of goldfields life in Australia. ...
Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 30th January - 12th May 2013 Dead at 30 Died so young Probably at the barrel of a snub nosed gun. Guilt, narcissism, parody or irony Doesn't matter now He's dead... Photos live on . Many thankx to the Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on ...
Hard to believe that the World Wide Web went public only twenty years ago. It brings a whole lot of memories of how I got hooked on to the web then. I had first read in 1986 about the coming of a “network’ that would revolutionise the way we communicated in a scientific journal at the Ceylon Institute of Scientific ...
Mudaliyar Andris Perera Abhaya Karunaratne Dissanayake of Dissanayake Walauwa, Nalluruwa, Panadura, Sri Lanka. Circa 1880s.Copyright Chulie de Silva. I would make faces at him when no one was looking, quite sure he couldn’t come down to punish me, although I felt his piercing eyes follow my every escapade. He was Mudaliyar Andris Perera Abhaya Karunaratne Dissanayake, my scowling grumpy looking ...
Last night, well past 1 am, while my Nugegoda neighbourhood slept and pole cats frolicked on my rooftop, I sat listening to a lesser known Dvorak piece: “Zypressen for String Quartet”. The sender Dale Hammond had said “…helps me to feel words and to see and feel characters in a story…almost like with the music I can reach out and touch ...
Photo Samuel Aranda, Spain for New York Times Drik where I work is a happening place. As one of my young colleagues said we breath, dream and live on photographs. Famous photographers, curators, videographers, budding artists, poets, authors wander in and out of the ever open doors of Drik. In the past year or so I have seen exhibitions that ...
