Help the archive

Share a family photograph

Many of Sri Lanka’s old photographs survive only in family albums. If you have one to share, we’d be glad to see it.

What we’re looking for

• Photographs of people, places and daily life in Ceylon and Sri Lanka, taken before about 1970.
• The largest and clearest scan you can make. A JPEG, PNG or WebP under 15 MB is ideal.
• Anything you know about the place, the date and the people in it.

What happens next

Your photograph stays private while we review it. We may email you with questions. If we accept it, we’ll add it to the archive with the credit you choose. Nothing appears automatically, and we can’t accept every photograph.