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Photos: Handing Over Nominations

Photo by Contributor/Perambara

Perambara has a great collection of photos from the 2010 election campaign (among other things). Perambara is a Sinhala news site, and also a collection of freelance photographers releasing some very high quality work. I check it almost every week cause it’s spot on photo-journalism, on Flickr. Another interesting feature is their collection of photos on the tsunami, five years later. It includes archival shots from then, and also the reconstruction (or not) that’s happened till today. The elections stuff is my favorite. They have cameramen right in Mahinda and Sarath’s faces, and people are freaking out.

Photo by Dinidu de Alwis/Perambara

Posted on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 in Photography, Politics, Sri Lanka, out.

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