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Pain and Memory

05 Monday Oct 2020

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Long shadows in the evening sun and the sounds of the palm tree leaves touching each others in the dry wind ….except me and my shadow no one was there ….

Self and ruined house in Northern province – Jaffna. How we became strangers to each other? 30 years of war disrupted the lives of the people in North and South. There are many untold stories that I am still searching through.  When the North transformed into a battleground, people left everything they possessed including land and houses to save their life. They lost their dwellings, their kids and relatives. They were living in refugee camps with numerous issues. …

‘Pain and Memory’  solo exhibition focused on displacement and disappearance in Sri Lanka. Currently photographs of  ‘Pain and Memory “ are exhibiting under  the   invited category on World photography day celebration exhibition: “FRAMES-2020”- on-line global photography exhibition; Organized by Gayoor Art Foundation in India.Exhibition curated by  Naushad H Gayoor and Jeetin Rangher .Here is the link to see the online exhibition

http://www.gayoorartfoundation.com

Genre : Creative photography | Art Photography  | year 2019  | Canon 5 D Mark 111

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Pain and Memory

05 Monday Oct 2020

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Architect, Architectural design, Art Photogaphy, cast, Civil War, collage Art, creative photography, Customary wedding, Disappearances, Disappeared, displacement, Documentary Photography, dowry, FRAMES-2020, GAyroo Art Foundation, Global photography Exhibition 2020, Justice, Justice in Transition, Memory, Monochrome, Northern Province, Pain and Memory, peace and reconciliation, Photography, Politics, Post War, Protest in Trincomalee, Reconsiliation, Religion, social class, Social Justice, South Asia, South Asian art, SouthAsiaArchitiect, Sri Lanka, Wedding gift

‘Mangal’ is the name of this house. Name was embossed on the top of the main door. Who’s name it could be? As my friend said one of her aunt’s house was named and dedicated to one of her cousin sister. Wealthiest people in the Northern province-built houses in order to give as a dowry (a customary wedding gift) for women. They are still keeping these houses and properties as souvenirs even though they do not come and settled there.   

‘Pain and Memory’  solo exhibition focused on displacement and disappearance in Sri Lanka. Photographs of  ‘Pain and Memory “ were exhibited under  the   invited category on World photography day celebration exhibition: “FRAMES-2020”- on-line global photography exhibition; Organized by Gayoor Art Foundation in India.Exhibition curated by  Naushad H Gayoor and Jeetin Rangher .Here is the link to see the online exhibition

http://www.gayoorartfoundation.com

Genre : Creative photography | Art Photography  | year 2019  |

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Fishing Community in Angulana

28 Saturday Dec 2019

Posted by waruni Anuruddhika in Documentary Photography

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costal areas, Development project and its impact on local communities, Development Projects., displacement, Documentary film, eco system, ecology, Education, environment, Film screening and Discussion, Fishing Commiunity, Fishing communities in Sri Lanka, Fulbright Stories, local community, man maid disaster, marginalization, marine pollution, natural disaster, Politics and culture, re-settlement, sub cultures, US-SLFC, US-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission, Waruni Anuruddhik

Fishing community in Angulana- Western Province Sri Lanka

The End of October I revisited the fishing community in Angulana. (The fishing community which was captured in my first documentary film ‘Sea is our life’ in 2010) Even after 9 years, nothing has changed much.  Their Life goes on.  Even though the weather is not pleasing, they take risks to go for fishing, since there are no other options to survive. In addition to feeding their family members, there are endless debts to repay.  Therefore, they go for fishing even in the month of dead (They called November as a month of dead and do not preferred to go for fishing).

These people find hard to save something since many of them were caught into the vicious cycle of loan which were given as personal loans or given by many different banks and micro finance companies. Many fishermen of the community still do not have their own fishing boats.  They use someone else’s fishing boats that has to be borrowed by the agreement of sharing the daily harvest. Moreover, some people even borrow the other necessary equipment that is used for fishing, with similar type of agreement. The tragedy is the material that they get as donations such as boats, engines and fishing nets do not spend in an appropriate way. The poorest fishermen are grounded in the bottom line of poverty forever and they are facing lot of difficulties endless problems since there’s no proper policies or mechanism to enchase their livelihood.

The fishing community in Angulana has been living in that coastal belt more than three decades. During the many election, politicians visit them, make promises and simply forget them after the election. For example, their issue of housing is still unresolved. No government was capable enough even to analyze the problem properly. As many community members said, after their houses were washed away by the monsoon in 2010, some people were given houses from a housing scheme which is located right in front of their living premises. Some houses of the housing scheme were sold out to the people outside the community. But many of them those who lost their house were not given the houses, Instead Some families were given LKR  300 000 to build their houses elsewhere without giving them a land. Rest of the 41 families were given 41 houses in a mountain top in   Nagoda – Kaluthara in Kaluthara district   where the neighborhood is completely alien to the fishing community.  They have not taken into consideration about their livelihood which force people to travel many kilometers to travel to the sea shore. Also, the constructions were not up to standard. The person whom I met said that his house was completely collapsed.

People still live in a temporary house at the sea shore even without proper  facilities such as sanitation.

In addition, other related social issues are somewhat disturbing to enchase the quality of their lives.  The school drop off rate is and early marriages are still quite high within the community.  New generation do not prefer to choose fishing as their career instead they go for manual jobs or search for service base jobs upon their qualifications. Mean time some are trying to escape the country or to find the overseas jobs. Many women are risking their lives and go to middle east. Their kids are being abandoned and vulnerable. Without proper guidance younger generation are ending up with various antisocial practices such as alcohol and drugs addiction.   This community are in a trap of social, cultural and economic poverty. Unfortunately they are pushing in to more marginalize and vulnerable community by the system itself.

 housing at the beach   

 

 

Note  and Images by Waruni Anuruddhika

Canon 5 D Mark 111 / 24-70 mm © Waruni Anuruddhika Chandrasena

Blog: https://warunic.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/sea-is-our-life-2/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/seaisourlife/?modal=admin_todo_tour

 

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Sea is our life – Film Screening

09 Monday Dec 2019

Posted by waruni Anuruddhika in Film

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US-SLFC
Presents
“Fulbright Stories”

Co- directed by a Fulbright Alumna Waruni Anuruddhika
‘Sea is our life’
(documentary Film)

December 11, 2019 at 3.30 p.m.
US- Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission Auditorium
(55, Abdul Caffoor Mawatha, Colombo 03)

Film screening followed  by a discussion with the participation of community members in Angulana. The event is free of charge. Please contact US-SLFC on 011-2564153, 011-2564176 to reserve a seat

About the Film
Sea is our life is a documentary film production done in 2010, Co- directed by Waruni Anuruddhika and Shanka Bodiyabaduge. This film focused on the fishing community at Angulana, Sari Lanka. The film is about their struggle to survive during the monsoon in each year and the social crisis they face due to that.
In this film, we attempted to discuss about the social life of these people linked with complex nature of their occupation- fishing- and environments, and their struggle to survive their lives on the one hand from the environmental hazards and on the other hand from power impositions by various political practices. The film discusses about the paradoxes between governmental policies such as resettlement and socio-economic back ground of the people. In this film, also we attempted to highlights their vulnerabilities for existence due to lack of resources and skills including education. It was not our attempt to give solution for them but to surface the voices to be heard those who are concerning to mainstreaming the marginalized social groups.

Script by Waruni Anuruddhika
Co-Directed & Director of Photography by Waruni Anuruddhika and Shanaka Bodiyabaduge
Produced by Waruni Anuruddhika

International screenings: “Voices for the Water” International film festival, Banglore India 2010.

Please follow the links for more details
Blog: https://warunic.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/sea-is-our-life-2/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/seaisourlife/?modal=admin_todo_tour

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