Charles T. Scowen, British, active 1870s-1890s Charles Scowen was one of a number of British photographers active in India and its environs during the 19th century. Arriving in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the early 1870s, Scowen had by 1876 established a studio, Scowen & Co., in Kandy. By the 1890s, he had opened a second in Colombo. His work, which included landscapes and portraits of Malay wom