Words & Pictures

Writing + PhotoWriting

Writing + Photography

Picture Palaces (PhotoDemos Photobook Series)

Future Photographs (PhotoDemos Photobook Series)

Absence in technicolour: protesting enforced disappearances in northern Sri Lanka, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, May 2022

In Sri Lanka, A Perpetrator State Demands Non-Violence, Urban Violence Research Network, May 2022

All That Remains: Postwar Materialities in Northern Sri Lanka, Ethnographic Marginalia, January 2021.

Photodemos: Citizens of Photography: the Camera and the Political Imagination, Ten Years of the Trans Asia Photography Review / Notes from the Field, Spring 2020

Unruly Rememberings, Invisible Histories, Joint Center for History of Economics at Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, August 2019.

Of Remberings/Forgettings in Northern Sri Lanka, Invisible Histories, Joint Center for History of Economics at Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, August 2019.

‘Paradise’ in Missing Pictures: A Brief and Incomplete History of Sri Lankan Photography, History Workshop Online, July 2019.

Reconciling Rights, Responsibilities and Disjunctures: An Assessment of Sri Lanka’s Post-War Development Drive (Law and Society Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2013).

Film

Scratches on Celluloid (with Timothy P.A. Cooper) [53 minutes/Colour/2018 | Language: Panjabi, Tamil, Urdu | Subtitles: English]

The images shown are re-photographed studio negatives from Jaffna from the 1970s-1980s (c) Vindhya Buthpitiya.