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Tomorrow a sampling of those works are being mounted for display at the Image Factory. We caught up with the Sri Lankan born photographer, who now calls Belize home and he told us about the Rajah Exhibition- a collection of photographs from 1961-2010:

Theagarajah Biswanath, Photographer
"Photography always has been my dream, I wanted to be a photographer but my father felt that, that's not a professional qualification. It has inspired further for me to go into it and I am now thinking to go a bit further from this exhibition. This exhibition was inspired because my colleagues at the FSTV saw my photographs and they said Mr. Raja you must have an exhibition and show this to the people, by you keeping it, there is no use."

"Photographs of the flowers were taken in Cayo in Ms. Ponnamblam's garden and a couple of other photographs I took in India when I went last year. It is the temple which was built in that year 1014 and last month they celebrated 1,000 years. It's a temple which is called 'the big temple' and also at the top of the temple there is this stone which prevents the shadow falling on the ground, so when you look back we don't know how that was built scientifically and according to physics. That was my dream that I did last year. I always go for photographs which are not very un-natural. I like reality, so I take photographs of nature but of course I have taken some pictures of landmarks like when I went to Sydney I took the Sydney opera house and there is a photograph which was taken in London in the 1960s I think it was 1963 - that was where I started. But also here you will find my first photograph which was taken in 1953-54, that was a photograph which I took with a Kodak box camera."

The Exhibition will be opened to the public tomorrow and runs through to December 8th.