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Background information, content
"Ardian Klosi describes Albania as a ship that has to steer through a sea of backwardness in order to finally arrive in the European harbor of prosperity and order. On the cover of the photo book 'Ahead with the past / Me të shkuarën, përpara' by Jutta BENZENBERG you find this ship again. Only this time built of stone: eternally cemented, a nautical/terrestrial hybrid, torn between departure and resignation.
With empathy and subtle humor, often unsparingly, the photographer portrays the country and her own existence in it in a way that only someone who has come to call the country his own can realize. The book is the continuation of a project begun 20 years ago with Albanian author Ardian Klosi. In nine series, the photographer tells individual Albanian stories that, taken as a whole, create a moving portrait of the country." (© Fotohof, 2010)
Additional information
The text is in English and Albanian.
About the German photographer, Jutta BENZENBERG (*1960 in Neuwied)
Photo books by Jutta BENZENBERG
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Kurt Kaindl
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, 29 x 25 x 2 cm., 148 pp., approx. 100 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: English / Albanian