Photographer Jutta Benzenberg opened a personal exhibition at”Marubi” National Museum of Photography.

The exhibition was titled “Albanian Biography-from 1991 to the present” and comes as a project supported by the Ministry of Culture, Goethe-Zentrum Tirana and the Dutch Embassy in Tirana.

Benzenberg’s exhibition is curated by Kim Knoppers.

In my exhibition”, says Jutta Benzenberg, “you will find different characters and they are all united in my person”. She says that she continues to photograph Albanians, because they are open to showing their emotions. She likes to get close to people, as this is something that fulfills her. The photographer Benzenberg says that she has been photographing here for 30 years and that she can no longer be separated from Albania.

Photographer Jutta Benzenberg’s exhibition begins with a few dozen photographs from the present period, then turns to the recent and murky past, which still seems to reflect the present. The director of the Museum, Lucian Bedeni, appreciates Jutta Benzenberg as an active photographer of the Albanian transition.

“Jutta Benzenberg is a rare case in these 30 years. She is a German photographer, a German artist, who comes and lives in Albania. And all of her 30-year creativity is based on this period of time, in these years, which coincide with the years of transition. We find it as part of various protests, part of demonstrations, part of campaigns”.

While the photography researcher, Leke Gjeloshi, says that the exhibition of the photographer Jutta Benzerberg is proof of her personality and professionalism, as well as part of the history of the 30-year post-communist period in Albania.

“Jutta Benzenberg brings her activity that spans three decades, from 1991 to the present day. Her research has been carried out both from the position of the photojournalist, as from the position of the photographer who stages her subjects, important events, both in the political plan, as in the social plan, as in the geographical plan of Albanian life. Of the Albanians themselves, but also of her, as a German who comes here, gets married, builds her life and activity”.

As an active and independent photographer, she has collaborated with UNICEF and the UN to bring into focus human rights, the position of women and children in Albania.

The photographs create a narrative subject with its own ups and downs, with wide horizons and details that elaborate the Albanian identity through Benzenberg’s eyes, simultaneously highlighting her personality.

It reflects the history of the last 30 years and documents some of the main events in the country. The exhibition will remain open until November.

/Klara Ruci/