Photographers (c) Andy Spyra

Photographers

On this page the photographers of the first workshop (Photographic Journal of a Roadtrip) of the project Humanity & Earth are introduced.

Photographer Tilaxan Tharmapalan (c) Tilaxan Tharmapalan

Tiaxan Tharmapalan

Tilaxan Tharmapalan is a Jaffna based free-lance photographer, mostly working on traditional subjects such a Savaari (bull cart races), architecture, Theer (chariots), woodcarvings and portraits.

Photographer Shehan Obeysekera (c) Shehan Obeysekera

Shehan Obeysekera

Shehan Obeysekera is a freelance photographer who’s concern it is to find a way to radically transform our modern day culture to be affectionate, caring and wholesome in its thinking towards all of nature.

Photographer Prageeth Wimalarathne (c) Prageethe Wimalarathne

​Prageeth Wimalarathne

Prageeth Wimalarathne is a creative director in a leading advertising agency and a freelance photographer for over 10 years. He has been researching and working on water and the importance to protect it ever since University.

Photographer Munira Mutaher (c) Munira Mutaher

Munira Mutaher

Munira Mutaher is a development practitioner and photographer from Colombo. She is looking forward to exploring the relationship between humans and their environment through storytelling and conceptual photography.

Photographer Sandranathan Rubatheesan (c) Sandranathan Rubatheesan

Sandranathan Rubatheesan

Sandranathan Rubatheesan is a freelance journalist from Jaffna that took up photography realizing its potential as a tool for storytelling

Photographer Dilanka Bandara (c) Dilanka Bandara

Dilanka Bandara

Dilanka Bandara is a trainee architect after recently having graduated from the University of Moratuwa. 

Photographer Ramanathan Parilojithan (c) Ramanathan Parilojithan

​Ramanathan Parilojithan

Ramanathan Parilojithan, was was born in Batticaloa in 1993. He got his following “Art & Design” Bachelor degree at the Fine Arts at the University of Jaffna.

Photographer Tashiya de Mel (c) Tashiya de Mel

Tashiya de Mel

Tashiya de Mel is a professional communication strategist with an eye for portraying stories in a unique way. She runs the blog “Lost in Ceylon” in an effort to showcase a different perspective on travel in Sri Lanka

Photographer Reza Akram (c) Reza Akram

​Reza Akram

eza Akram has been taking photographs since 1997 but is working as a professional photographer having worked for UNHCR, IUCN & featured work on Huffington Post, Geo magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, and many others since 2009.