Veins of Influence: Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections

Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra

Veins of Influence, Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections is a pioneering monograph that brings a rich array of early images of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) into the global discourse of photography, pairing a striking lens of visual appreciation with distinctly humanizing perspectives. The publication represents the celebrated result of three years of research by author, Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra, a noted scholar and cultural entrepreneur, who has realized through this writing a ‘life time’s fascination with the photograph, encounter with it and its collecting.”

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