Those trips to Batticaloa were not only work – organising and coordinating the projects, discussing possible improvements, supporting the newspaper at home with reports – but they marked also the transition of my own photography away from a purely private, visual memory oriented one. Soon I started to upload images to flickr, another year later this blog, and the rest is history in 2700+ posts plus the book on ‚Batticaloa Fishermen‘.

Project wise I am still connected with Sri Lanka, but meanwhile more on an NGO level, plus, not to forget, some friends I still have contact with. And: I have learned a lot, and with it my view of the world and of man’s role in it has changed substantially.