Refuge from the Pyre #2

David Blacker posted a photo:

Coffin maker, Madawala, Kandy. Shot in January 2024, for the soon to be published Oddamavadi Project. When Sri Lankan authorities finally rescinded, in 2021, the oppressive legislation mandating the cremation of all Covid-19 dead, regardless of religious practice, thousands of Muslim victims of the pandemic were packed into crude boxes and hurried off to burial in distant Oddamavadi, saved from the fires that had consumed so many of their brethren.