Fate or Destiny: Living Life with Passion and Finding Your Why
with Nilmini De Silva
Next Tuesday 31st May, our club member Nilmini De Silva will share with us some of the stories behind the images in her book, Fate or Destiny: Living Life with Passion. Fate or Destiny is a collection of photos and stories that aim to inspire people to make conscious choices in life. Nilmini launched this photo exhibition together with her photo book at the Hornsby Library in 2014 which then travelled to many venues around NSW.
If you make it on Tuesday, Nil has promised you will get a free copy of her book. This exhibition was created after Nilmini completed two important journeys. The first was a solo journey where she travelled and volunteered around the world for a year in her quest to rediscover happiness, reinvent herself and also complete her goal of spending quality time on every continent before turning 50.
The goal was accomplished with her arrival in Antarctica for Christmas in 2010 after being on the road for much of that year. The second journey was undertaken with her partner Steven Liaros in 2013, when they spent 6 months in Europe and Sri Lanka, volunteering in intentional communities and eco-villages to better understand what drove people to think and live differently. In her photo book Nilmini raises questions on many aspects of life that are often taken for granted and challenges her audience to examine life more carefully. Her photography is inspired by her love for the natural environment and her desire to share stories of the extraordinary people she has met.
Nilmini is an Engineer (Water Management) and Director of the Town Planning Consultancy she runs with her partner Steven Liaros. In her spare time, she is a Documentary Photographer who specialise in using images and words to highlight the social issues she cares about. She has always loved writing but discovered her passion for photography while volunteering as a Conservation Photographer in South Africa during her 2010 solo year of travel while on a sabbatical from her then local government job. Nil
is now an internationally awarded photographer with National and International Photography Honours. Her most recent claims to fame is that she placed in the Top 20 of the Art Category of Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographer 2022 (Capture Magazine) and in the Top 20 Aerial Category
of Photographer of the Year 2021 (Australian Photography Magazine).
You can find more info on her website or follow her on social media:
Nil’s Documentary Photography website: Narratives4Change
Nil and Steven’s Publication on Medium: Ecoliving Journeys: stories from an emerging future Nil’s Photography Facebook page: Nilmini De Silva Photography
