A Passion for Faces by Barbara Sansoni design The East India Company’s founding

The East India Company’s founding charter authorised it to ‘wage war’ and it had always used violence to gain its ends

the student living abroad as well as the expatriate with a spicy Sri Lankan taste bud

Set in a more innocent time— Sri Lanka’s civil war had only just begun—Serendipity is satire

Both love and loss fill her life

Having lost his mother at a young age

A Passion for Faces by Barbara Sansoni design The East India Company’s foundingBarbara Sansoni's private notebooks are filled with portraits of faces. Most are quick line drawings. This book is a collection of some of these in which she explores her fascination with the variety of faces that are found at the crossroads of the Indian Ocean that is Sri Lanka.