Metamorphoses: Sri Lanka
09 July 2012
Abby Robinson, From the series Film Industry

The first of the PIX special issues with a South Asia, focus, the theme Metamorphoses looks at the notion of change and transition that have been evident not only in the social and political history of Sri Lanka but also its enlarging cultural life, seen in the more recent Colombo Biennale. ‘Metamorphoses’ can also be about creating a parallel form of consciousness about a subject by the photographer.
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