Photography

I snapped this beggar near the General Hospital, Eye Hospital junction, Colombo. The maimed beggar wasn’t happy being photographed (picture in the papers could mean trouble) but I wasn’t taking this for the paper. I remember seeing this man seated at the same place for many years and he disappeared one day; I never saw him anywhere else, either.

I was struck by the irony of the murals on the wall behind him, which show victims of accidents and acts of violence.

Canon FTb manual, 28mm lens, Fuji neopan black and white film. Taken in the late 1990s.