Albanian Roma People Featured in a Photo Exhibition in Italy

An Italian photographer has opened an exhibition in Rome, displaying photos of the Roma community in Tirana suburbs taken during her stay in Albania in the hot summer of 2009. The exhibition by Sara Munari, a professional photographer and docent of the history of photography, reportage and portrait at the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan, is being held at the S.T Foto Libreria Gallery in Rome will be open to the public until March 21, says the gallery on its website.
Organized by Amnesty International as part of a human rights campaign, the exhibition features black and white as well as color photos of the Roma in Albania, the poorest and most vulnerable community with a population around 100,000 people.
Asked about what she found interesting about the Roma community in Albania, Munari said, “Everything is interesting to me, but diversity, being different, attracts me a lot. There is a lot of prejudice against the Roma people.”
She says that what impressed her most about the Roma in Albania was the fact of how much they see their lives connected to fate and coincidence.
The exhibition’s curator Diego Mormorio says photographer Munari has managed to see stories, feel, and get excited by an authentic community which above all remains extraordinarily free.