Novak Djokovic during ATP content shoot at Melbourne Park
Buddhist Monks get ready to commence the Victorian United Nations day of Vesak
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison accidentally tackles a junior soccer player during the 2022 federal election campaign.
Anti-immigration protesters and counter-protestors clash in Melbourne Australia 2025
A group of people move away from a crashing wave at Tweed Heads as Tropical Cyclone Alfred approaches Australia’s east coast.
Elisa Cosetti diving in front of the Sydney Opera House & Harbour bridge during the Cliff Diving World Series championship in Sydney, Australia, November 10, 2024. Photo by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake
Portrait of Victorian mountain cattleman Charlie Lovick at his home in Merrijig, Victoria, Australia. Photo by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake for The New York Times.
Bag Pipers Break Record For world record Bagpipe Ensemble in Melbourne 2024
A senior Army officer looks out towards protestors following a Anti-Coup protest in Bangkok
Florian Verhaeghe and Fraser McReight contest a lineout during Australia Wallabies v France in Brisbane.
Australian Ballet dancers pose during a media call
A wool handler works inside a shearing shed during a story on Australia’s wool industry.
Alexander Zverev serves during an ATP Cup match in Sydney.
President Barack Obama black & white photo from G20 summit
Aryna Sabalenka holds the Australian Open trophy after winning the women’s singles final.
A women with a colourful headpiece sitting on a bench smokes a cigarette during the Melbourne Cup Day held at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne Australia.
Jonacani Masi comes out of the water holding two rejuvenated pieces of Coral in Sigatoka on the main island of Viti Levu in Fiji.
Sri Lankan army soldiers stand at a crime scene in Sainthamaruthu where a body lies on the ground after a raid on a suspected hideout.
Spectators watch a ute circle work competition from the stands during the Deniliquin Ute Muster in New South Wales.

Melbourne based Australian photojournalist

Asanka Brendon Ratnayake is a visual journalist working across news, sport, reportage, documentary stories, travel and portraiture throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

Across stills and video, he has spent more than a decade covering breaking news, politics, social issues, major sport and long form visual reportage.

TIME online clipping about Rohingya persecution in Myanmar, featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
Washington Post front-page tear sheet about Sri Lankan Muslims after the Easter bombings, featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
New York Times International front page tear sheet for “The Mountains Hold Secrets,” featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
New York Times double-page spread for “Paradise Threatened: Big Challenges for Fiji,” featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
La Gazzetta dello Sport front-page clipping from Formula One coverage, featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
Lonely Planet Great Journeys book spread about the Hippy Trail, featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
New York Times online clipping for “Arsonists Set Fire to Melbourne Synagogue,” featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
Front page of The Australian newspaper featuring a photo of Cardinal George Pell surrounded by reporters and photographers outside a courthouse, with headlines about his trial and conviction.
New York Times Travel front-page tear sheet for “Paradise Threatened,” featuring Fiji climate change photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
New York Times front-page tear sheet about the Mallacoota bushfires, featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
New York Times tear sheet about the Deni Ute Muster and rural loneliness, featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
International Business Times clipping about a Taliban suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.
New York Times front-page tear sheet about the Deni Ute Muster and rural loneliness, featuring photography by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake.

Ratnayake works regularly with major international agencies and publications including Getty Images, Reuters, Associated Press and The New York Times, with work exhibited at the Museum of Australian Photography.

Sri Lankan Barber Shop daily life scene Colombo 2010
Aboriginal Bull Rider, Kaleb Comollatti waits to ride during rodeo event
A rural scene with ancient temples in Bagan, Myanmar. As a person wearing traditional clothing and a straw hat walks along a dirt road, with grazing cows around.
A portrait of an elderly Aboriginal woman in the remote community of Warburton.
Aryna Sabalenka plays out of the shadows during the 2022 Australian Open.
A Samoan farmer climbs through the highlands of Upolu carrying a machete

Available for commissioned editorial, sport, reportage, documentary, travel and portrait assignments across Australia and internationally.

From breaking news and major sport to portraits, travel and longer form stories, Asanka brings a journalistic approach to assignments that need strong pictures, context and reliable delivery.

A woman holding an umbrella walks through rubble and damaged buildings in Bhaktapur after the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Rabbi Yaakov Glasman stands inside St Kilda Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne during COVID restrictions.
Friends gather around a smoking fire pit in the Ute paddock camping area during the Deniliquin Ute Muster.
People evade a crashing wave at Tweed Heads ahead of Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
A young man pulls a kite string as he flies his kite as he is surrounded by other flying kites as the sun sets on Galle Face
Young men sell fresh fish along the Kabul to Jalalabad road in Afghanistan.
Portrait of golfer Tiger Woods.
Spectators in the stands shield themselves from a large dust cloud