GWKL: Gallery Weekend Kuala Lumpur

16/04/2026

Award Winning Film TEGKANG - Discussion Tuesday, April 21. Zoom in.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 Datin Shalini Ganendra DSG will lead a discussion on the Film, with Director Josh Nawan and Producer and Producer, Lyn Nasihin, focusing on the film’s creative process, cultural inspirations, and making-of insights, followed by an open Q&A.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/.../storytelling-place-and...
◇UK 10am
♤KL 5pm
All welcome. Please sign on through link.

11/12/2025

Enjoy the Read. By D. Shalini Ganendra
https://www.facebook.com/CamJLPA/posts/pfbid02KEwd9Zqhm7wRM1iPXGCYUsfZtkAhvQJs1wSBDtwncp1DbmqvH8Tpw5rPVZGKcVAzl?_ps=dest_url

Introduction Recent scholarship on early photography examines the photograph as primary source material in order to identify and explore ‘veins of influence’ that operate on, through, and from it. The ‘veins of influence’ analysis developed in that research brings us, whether as professional...

13/11/2025

Friends - a recommendation for this season.
Award winning local film "TEGKANG" ("Rainbow") has just been added to Netflix. It is a beautiful film on so many levels, location - Bario, Sarawak.
A real feel good with cultural sparkle. Recommended and ideal Holiday Season. Cuddle up with a blanket, bubbly and/or loved one:

While visiting a secluded village, a photographer falls for a young woman but soon uncovers a community secret that will change her life forever.

12/09/2025

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12/09/2025

Publication Anniversary!
Veins of Influence Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in Early Photographs and Collections by Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra
Discover over 450 rare, unpublished photographs that unveil the untold visual history of colonial Sri Lanka.
In this groundbreaking monograph, Datin Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra traces the “veins of influence” that shaped how Ceylon was seen, collected, and remembered, from British royals and curators to local family archives. The result is a visual journey that reframes global photography and humanizes the colonial lens.
Featuring never before published collections from the Royal Collection Trust, Pitt Rivers Museum, Cambridge University Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Rothschild Archives, and more, alongside works by Julia Margaret Cameron, this book is both a feast for the eyes and a powerful contribution to cultural history.
For scholars, collectors, and anyone captivated by photography, empire, or Sri Lanka’s layered past, Veins of Influence is a must-read.
Available:
UK: Daunt Books (Marylebone) & online: https://dauntbooks.co.uk/veins-of-influence/
Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa, Barefoot Bookshops
Malaysia: Riwayat Books; Kinokuniya
Online from Publisher Neptune Publications Pvt Ltd.: https://www.veinsofinfluence.com/

13/08/2025

VISIT THE PIYADASA GALLERY at University Malaya. A hidden gem in the heritage designated AMAZING Brutalist Buildings Block. The Gallery is neat light box that was Piyadasa's classroom. Now transformed into a creative space that serves as a gallery, working space, discussion forum and more.
Currently on show through Aug. 17, Faizal Sidik's Stencil exhibition.

31/03/2025

Wishing all who celebrate a Blessed and Glorious Raya and Season!

24/03/2025

Cosmopolitan histories make for far richer cultural content. Delighted to share GWKL Founder - Shalini Ganendra's review in today's Star Newspaper (the leading English language paper/Malaysia) of the re-publication in English of Azah Aziz's beautiful 'Malay Textiles & Costumes, Form & Style.'

See:

The translation of Azah Aziz's groundbreaking cultural study invites a new generation to not only appreciate the beauty of Malay textiles but also to consider the deeper cultural meanings behind them.

08/03/2025

HAPPY International Women's Day. We celebrate wonderful women, all women, past and present into a vibrant future.
Shalini Ganendra presented this morning on Julia Margaret Cameron, and this artist's 19th Century Ceylon Women photographs, at the Women of Photography Conference.

05/03/2025

ALL WELCOME Do JOIN - from all over the world - at any point!

Datin Dame Shalini Ganendra will speak at The Women in Photography, Virtual Global Conference, International Women's Day, March 8, 2025. She will cover the under-studied works of Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon), by iconic photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron.

Titled: Re-viewing Julia Margaret Cameron’s Ceylon Women – New Ways of Seeing (Sat, March 8: 10:20 am, Malaysia; 10:20 pm ET)

Please Register and join for free. https://olemiss.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D0DmyzAzRDSDRNhSwZFm1g #/registration
The conference will feature eminent speakers from around the globe and starts at 12:01 am UTC time, at the start of International Women's Day. (Conference https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenofphotography/2025/)