Sri Lanka, Ultimate Island Safari - A Photographic Exhibition

14th November 2009, www.dailymirror.lk

Photographic Exhibition by Chitral Jayatilake and Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne
From Thursday 19th November to Sunday 15th December 2009, at the Alliance Française auditorium, Colombo, Sri Lanka

A photographic exhibition of leopards, elephants, primates, birds and teeming bio-diversity to Blue and Sperm Whales. All photographed in one small, magical island. First staged in London in September 2009, Alliance Francaise is delighted to bring this exhibition to Colombo. Chitral Jayathilake and Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne are two of Sri Lanka's best known photographers who use their imagery to create livelihoods in tourism.

Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne has had over fifteen books and over two hundred articles published. He frequently appears on TV programs on NatGeo, Discovery, Animal Planet, etc as well as on Radio. He has become a leading publicist for Asian Wildlife. An Imperial College (London) graduate in Civil Engineering and a British Chartered Accountant and then Banker, he is presently CEO of Jetwing Eco Holidays

Chitral Jayatilake, Manager - Nature Odyssey, Walkers Tours Ltd
Chitral for many years has been among the best known wildlife photographers in Sri Lanka having exhibited his work in numerous national exhibitions since 2001.

Chitral works for Walkers Tours in Sri Lanka, ( a division of John Keells Holdings) Chitral won his first award in photography from Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh aged just 17.

In 2003, following a joint exhibition with his late partner Dr.Ravi Samarasinha, Chitral published Wilds of Lanka.

In December of 2008, Chitral published his latest book titled

Moments of Truth in the Wilderness - published by Vijitha Yapa Publications. His work on this book was described by Dominic Sansoni writing his Foreword as a work replete with "Love, sensitivity and wit".