Urban Explorer Photographer Has Spent Nine Months in Albanian Prison
An urban explorer photographer was arrested and put in an Albanian jail for nine months.
Photos of an Abandoned Underground Ammo Factory in Albania
In the 1960s and ‘70s, the town of Poliçan was one of the largest and most important armaments centers in Albania. For security reasons, most information about the site was top secret and the town itself was closed to foreigners.
The Spirit of Albania: A Conversation with Street Photographer Gilles Roudiere
Gilles Roudiere was born 1976 in France and lives and works in Berlin. He is a self-taught photographer, and in 2005 he decided to give up his job as an executive to concentrate on photography. His work mainly focuses on Central and Eastern European countries.
Portraits of Albanian Women Who Have Lived Their Lives As Men
For her project Sworn Virgins of Albania, photographer Jill Peters visited to the mountain villages of northern Albania to capture portraits of "burneshas," or females who have lived their lives as men for reasons related to their culture and society.