[2] He later embarked on a career towards honing his skills in photography, and he also predominantly focused on the aspects of photojournalism.
[1] He then worked for a short time as a photojournalist for AFP News Agency before becoming the feature writer at The Island newspaper for a brief period.
[2] Akmeemana wrote the unpublished manuscript The Mirage about writer and activist Rajani Thiranagama's life and assassination in a four-month marathon.
It won the Gratiaen Prize in 1997 despite competition from another Sri Lankan writer with a well received book released in a heavily publicized fashion.
[3][4] In 2021, his short story The Lucky Charm was conferred with the first prize in the prose section at the 2021 Literary Competition which was organised and conducted by the English Writers Collective of Sri Lanka.