Italian-Albanian cooperation in photo expo

TIRANA, April 12 – Photographer Roland Tasho has opened a photo exhibition at the National Museum of History in Tirana featuring the activity of the Italian Development Cooperation in Albania during the past 20 years. The displayed photos are part of Tasho’s collection and document the evolution of Italian funded projects in Albania since 2006. Tasho’s photos are a confession through images both historical and chronological. The exhibition was visited by Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta and his visiting counterpart Franco Frattini. 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.
The exhibition staged in the frame of “Italy, Albania ,Two Peoples, One Sea, One Friendship” season of events will be open every day until May 9.