I sort of knew that there was a festival that involved parading a sacred tooth relic on the back of an elephant. I had no idea that this festival – the Perehera – involved so much spectacle and noise and dozens of elephants. I took hundreds of photographs, mostly badly-framed, out of focus and underexposed, with a Methodist church or an ATM sign in the background and somebody else's camera in the foreground. These are the closest-to-acceptable of them.