Stories of people, place, and change.
Documentary photography by Nayanahari Abeynayake, exploring everyday life, identity, inequality, memory, and the communities shaped by Sri Lanka’s southern coast.
Exhibitions
Recent and upcoming presentations of Nayanahari Abeynayake’s work.
Stories - Photographs from Sri Lanka, where private lives meet public history.
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Galle, My Home
A personal series from Sri Lanka’s southern coast — children, workers, weather, roads, and the small encounters that make a place familiar.
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These Are Not Dewdrops of Jaffna
A quiet study of post-war life in northern Sri Lanka, where domestic routines continue among the visible and invisible remains of conflict.
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Aragalaya
Sri Lanka’s 2022 protest movement seen as a public reckoning — a country gathering in anger, exhaustion, memory, and hope.
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Where the Fire Entered
A quiet record of the aftermath of anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka — damaged mosques, burnt rooms, and the fragile work of return.
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The Missing Remain
A portrait of enforced disappearance in Sri Lanka, told through a mother, a photograph, and the long life of unanswered absence.