4/23/26

Studio Ilankai: A Tamil Photographic History of Sri Lankan Citizenship with Vindhya Buthpitiya

Drawing on long-term ethnographic research focused on Sri Lanka’s Tamil-owned photography studios, I ask what the studio makes possible in terms of citizenship. I will consider the enduring significance of the photography studio as a dynamic space integral to post/colonial and post/war citizen-making, and in giving photographic shape to individual and collective aspirations and fantasies.

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