Albanian women in “Retrospective and reality”

TIRANA, March 14 – “Retrospective and reality,” Albanian successful women around the World.” This is how renowned photographer Roland Tasho named his exhibition featuring successful Albania women in the 1980s when they were students or had just started their careers and their transformation nowadays when they lead successful careers around the world.
The 120 pictures introduced models, singers, musicians and actors who after leaving Albania in the early 1990s just after the collapse of the communist regime resumed their careers Europe and America.
“During my job as a photo reporter from 1982 to 1990 I have photographed prominent women in different fields such as health, education, science, art as well as university students who apart from being talented were the most beautiful part of Tirana at that time,” says Tasho.
Internationally renowned soprano Inva Mula, Tefta Tasho Koco singers Vace Zela and Pareshqevi Simaku are some of the famous Albanian women Tasho brings to the public in two eras during the 1980s and in present days.
The exhibition remained open at the FAP gallery of the Academy of Arts from 11 to 14 March and was dedicated to March 8, the International Women’s Day.
Photographer Roland Tasho is known for his albums of Albanian immigrant communities in Italy, Greece, The United States and Switzerland. A well known photographer, Tasho started working as a professional photographer in 1982. After working for nearly 20 years as a photo reporter, he is now a free-lance professional.
Since 1992, his photos have been displayed in more than 40 exhibitions in Albania, Italy, France, Belgium Germany etc. He is well known for his pictures showing the collapse of the communist regime in the early 90s, the 1997 turmoil and the 1999 exodus of the Kosovo people to Albania following the armed conflict with Serbia.