Jutta Benzenberg, a German-born, Tirana-based photographer representing Albania in the exhibition in Athens, features Albania, which was under the Ottoman rule for five centuries until declaring independence in 1912, with some religious monuments, an aqueduct, a fortress , and two afterlife monuments
TIRANA, March 5 – Five photographers – 50 Monuments – 1 Balkan Tale. This is the motto of the Balkan Tale exhibition in Athens featuring the Ottoman presence in the Balkans from the 14th to the 20th centuries. Hosted within the Greek capital’s last-surviving public baths – the Bath-House of the Winds, that dates from the first period of Turkish rule (1453-1669), the exhibition documents some of the last remaining traces of the fast-disappearing cultural heritage of the Ottoman era still evident in the Balkans.
The exhibition comprises 50 specially-commissioned photographs of Muslim, Christian and Jewish monuments in the Balkans, shot by five award-winning photographers from Athens, Belgrade, Pristina, Skopje and Tirana.
Albania is being represented in the event, by Jutta Benzenberg, a German-born, Tirana-based photographer famous for her pictures of Albania since 1991, just before the collapse of the country’s almost 45-year hard-line communist regime.
Benzerberg features Albania, which was under the Ottoman rule for five centuries until declaring independence in 1912, with some religious monuments including the Catholic Cathedral in the northern town of Shkodra, erected in 1858-67 with permission granted by the Ottoman administration in a decree issued by Sultan Abd
