“Thanks to you and others, who was taking pics world can remember the sufferings!”. The words are from an email a stranger sent me recently, and should be heart-warming for an old photojournalist who’s packing up to leave struggling Sri......more
Morten Hvaal a photojournalist on the road
Recently in Sri Lanka Category
Magnanimous Mahinda and the Foreign Media Mob
Some little man in a Colombo cafe started shouting abuse at me the other day. I don’t know him, and I don’t know why. That sort of thing is very rare here, but perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, given the......more
Sri Lanka: The Gaza Connection.
It's yet another Colombo morning filled with somewhat bizarre events and news. An SMS message from a local news service just interrupted coffee on my sixth-floor balcony in Wellawatte, saying a suspected LTTE cadre has jumped off a seventh-floor balcony in Wellawatte after security......more
Free Tiger tour, anyone?
So, "Foreign media taken on a free ride by the LTTE", according to the Sri Lankan Government's propaganda website "Media Centre For National Security" (MCNS). Apparently, many of us are terrorist sympathisers and, well, stupid. I might actually have......more
May you live long, but not here
"Ayubowan", is the first word a visitor to Sri Lanka hears on arrival. These days one could be forgiven for thinking it means something very rude. It doesn't, and the increasingly rare tourist would probably not suspect any hostility......more
Morten Hvaal a photojournalist on the road
Morten Hvaal was born in Norway in 1963 and spent a few years there trying to compensate for his lack...