M Neelika Jayawardane

M Neelika Jayawardane

M Neelika Jayawardane is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York-Oswego, and a Research Associate at the Visual Identities ... in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg (South Africa). She is a recipient of the 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for a book project on Afrapix, a South African photographers’ agency that operated during the last decade of apartheid. She was recently selected for a critical writing residency at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and received support from the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for an interdisciplinary project examining photography from Sri Lanka’s civil war period.


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It is time West­ern me­dia rid its cov­er­age of Sri Lan­ka’s pow­er­ful protest move­ment of dam­ag­ing Ori­en­tal­ist tropes.

Opinion by M Neelika Jayawardane
Published On 2 Jun 2022
Sri Lanka protests

This year’s Berlin Bi­en­nale pos­es im­por­tant ques­tions about oth­er­ness, pow­er, vi­o­lence and pa­tri­archy.

Opinion by M Neelika Jayawardane
Published On 18 Jun 2018
Berlin Biennale photo 4

African pho­tog­ra­phers are still strug­gling with ex­clu­sion and mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion by ma­jor press or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Opinion by M Neelika Jayawardane
Published On 26 Apr 2018
Kenya photographers