Ms. Luxana Pakirathan, a third year Media Studies student won two national level prizes in the photography competition conducted by the Asia Foundation in partnership with the Photographic Society of Sri Lanka.

The competition conducted on theme of ‘Pic Your Values’ on six categories: peace, respect, tolerance, compassion, honesty / sincerity, cooperation / solidarity or year 2020 and Ms. Luxana Pakirathan won first place in the category of ‘Cooperation’ and third place in the category of ‘Honesty’.

Ms. Luxana has already won the ‘Best Photography’ award in the competition titled ‘Kan Vazhiye 2019’ (Through the Eyes 2019) conducted by Tamil Literary Association of Uva Wellassa University for their annual festival ‘Malaiththendral’.

Meantime, the Department of Media Studies secured the third national level prize in photography competition in this year 2020 along with Ms. Sriviththiya Piranatharthikarasarma, Second Year Media Studies student already won the second place in island wide photo competition ‘Olichchuvadu 2020’ which was conducted by Tamil Literary Association, University of Moratuwa.