Tirana Times
Over 500 photos, from the overall number of 1000, have been selected to be part of this year’s exhibition at the National Historical Museum in Tiranaנwhich was developed with the support of the American Embassyطill open on September 12 for the Albanian public.
The exhibition depicts the 9/11 tragedy through photographs and it is subtitled “A democracy of photographs”נas anyone who had pictures from that day had the right and were invited to share their pictures and submit them to the gallery created for this purpose. This exhibition has made its tour worldwide in cities like Paris, London, Tokyo, Berlin, Zurich etc., and now on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy, has stopped in Tirana.
Hundred of picturesנthe towers in flame, people in panic, fireman trying to save lives, a city in chaos and many moreנcaptured moments of that day. The exhibition will stay open for two weeks and the entrance will be free for everyone wishing to look closer at the moments captured 10 years ago.
Originally, the idea and initiative of bringing this exhibition to Tirana was of a young Albanian student Violana Murataj. During her studies for video, photography and media at the Visual Arts School in New York she contacted the main curator of the exhibition, Charles Traub, a famous photographer of the sixties. “If you think now about that day, I believe that for most of the people it seems strange that 10 years have passed. 9/11 was a tragedy that impacted the whole world, therefore the mission of the exhibition is sensitizing,” stated Murataj.
“Here is New York” is one of the most important documentary exhibitions of the last ten years and the fact that it is now opening its doors for the Albanian public represents an invaluable event in Tirana.
