By Janaka Alahapperuma
President Rajapaksa who was the chief guest of the exhibition, welcomed at the gate of the Art Gallery by Mr and Mrs Sudath Silva with their two daughters.(Pix by Nalin Hewapathirana)
President Mahinda Rajapksa declared open the ‘Rajatha Dekma’ photographic exhibition held at the National Art Gallery organised by Sudath Silva on 20th November. Sudath Silva, the official presidential photographer celebrates his 25 years of excellent service as an official photographer for four successive Presidents of Sri Lanka.
The exhibition has a selection of very rare photographs no one has ever seen before and dating from the beginning of his career as a photographer with former President Ranasingha Premadasa to more recent images from President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The photographs apart from presenting the role played by former Presidents including President D.B.Wijetunga and President Chandrika Kumaratunga and the current President in social events, their lifestyle and dress sense, charity, landmark occasions and historical and beautiful places they visited. And also those photos give the public a peep into the lifestyle of the bygone era of four heads of the nation.
President Rajapaksa who was the chief guest of the exhibition, welcomed at the gate of the Art Gallery by Mr and Mrs Sudath Silva with their two daughters.
Speaker W.J.M Lokubandara, former First lady Hema Premadasa, several other Ministers and many former and present government officials were participated in the opening ceremony. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is seen here with Mrs Premadasa admiring photos of former Presidents and his own photos taken by their official photographer Sudath Silva.
This is a memorable occasion in the life of my long time friend, Sudath Silva and I wish him very best of luck in the future.
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