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Unnoticed Pulse Of Sri Lanka

April 30, 2018
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The narration includes pictures of day to day struggles of strangers that I captured in Sri Lanka.

Each of these moments lives within me and revisit and influence my political and academic life.

The recurrent impact of these captured moments forces me to understand the economic, social and political underpinnings of untold stories which certainly move beyond their artistic quality.

 

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Labour

 

 

 

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Between many struggles and scripts

 

 

 

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Nirvana and Iron

 

 

 

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Do you know me?

 

 

 

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Nazzar: The Gully-Gold Miner

 

 

 

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Mother

 

 

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Water for Salvation

 

 

 

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At the Edge of the Universe

 

 

 

The days of Defeat, Suppression and Hope

 

I wish to exhume the untold stories of these strangers who refuse to leave my conscience that I choose not to abandon.

This is my artistic struggle to depict the unnoticed pulse of Sri Lanka in the age of capitalist realism.

 

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Kalpa Rajapaksha

Kalpa Rajapaksha teaches Political Economy at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and a current PhD candidate at The New School for Social Research, New York City, USA. He is a passionate photographer who instruments his photography and artwork as a political visualization of life under capitalism.

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