Photography Exhibition MY CITY 2020
Tatì Space
Tatì Space presents the first Online Photo Exhibition, with the theme MY CITY. We are pleased that to our open invitation have been answered many authors, of different professions, nationalities and ages, photographers, architects, urban planners, students, writers, artists from Albania, Kosovo, USA, Spain, Italy, etc. The CITY, this complex and multidimensional organism, offers different ways of interpretation. For some authors, it is the city of contemporary architecture, compositions, colors and pleasing aesthetics. For some others, it is the city where modernity coexists in harmony with the long tradition of construction. On the contrary, for local architects and urban planners, this desired harmony does not exist in the Albanian urban scape, but the new "screams, violates, disdain". For some authors, the city is a place of melancholy and meditation. Some of the participating photos were taken during Covid19, that put the professionals and artists in new challenges and questions. We hope that the viewers will enjoy the photographs of the exhibition, and find in them pieces of their own city. We thank all the participating photographers, and wish to meet them again at the upcoming events of TatìSpace.
Author: Sokol Mitrojorgji
Title: “Contact”
Place: Tirana, Albania
Description: Visual focal points in the urban environment that create diverse experiences of the built environment.
© Sokol Mitrojorgji “Contact”
Author: Sabina Darova
Title: “Hand in hand”
Place: Asti, Italy
Description: I have lived for 26 years in Italy, in the city of Asti, where tradition goes hand in hand with the new. The city preserves the Roman walls, alleys and buildings from the XII century, as new. He cares for and protects them with much love. This is the message I want to convey in this exhibition.
© SabinaDarova “Të Kapur Për Dore”
Author: Rozafa Shpuza
Title: “Water Solitude”
Place: Shkodra Lake, Albania
Description: During the winter Shkodra was flooded by heavy rains. The photo was shot in Shiroka; a table and a lonely chair, immersed in the waters of the lake, as if to remind us that we are powerless in the face of the whims of nature.
© Rozafa Shpuza “Water Solitude”
Author: Dardan Vukaj
Title: “The Stage”
Place: National Theater, Tirana, Albania
Description: The photo was taken during the demolition of the National Theater Building. The destruction started on the night of May 17, the manifestation of powerlessness that many times citizens fail to defend their own city.
© Dardan Vukaj “The Stage”
Author: Alketa Misja
Title “In front of Pyramid”
Place: Tirana, Albania
Alketa Misja is an architect urban planner and photographer from Albania. She uses Photography as a tool to investigate different forms and outcomes of urban transformations.
website: www.alketamisja.com , Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo
© Alketa Misja “In front of Pyramid”
Authore: Doriana Musaj
Title: “Overlapping city”
Place: Tirana, Albania
Description: Residents and buildings in Tirana, in conflict between them, for the free urban space, that is running out.
© Dorina Musaj “Overlapping City”
Author: Reald Keta
Title: “Magic City”
Place: Tirana, near ETC, Albania
Description: In the photo is shown the former parking lot near the ETC, during a heavy rain flood. The image is upside down.
© Reald Keta “Magic City”
Author: Evis Cerga
Title 1: “There are flowers even in bunker”
Title 2: “Kur hiqen Maskat”
Place: Tirana, Albania
Evis Cerga is a translator, author of short stories book "Friendship Road". Evis uses photography as inspiration for her stories. She is a blogger at Shqiptarja.com
© Evis Cerga “There are flowers even in bunker”
© Evis Cerga “Kur Hiqen Maskat”
Author: Milicent Fambrough
Title 1: “Aztec Theatre”
Title 2: “Convention center”
Title 3: “Pearl Brewery”
Titlei 4: “The Bakery”
Place: San Antonio Texas, USA
Description: I am a contemporary artist and writer from San Antonio Texas. These are all popular landmarks in my hometown San Antonio. We are friendly people. We talk to neighbors and help others in need. I love my city.
Author: Loreta Çapeli
Title 1: “2000 Years of Urban Stratification”
Title 2: “Threat”
Title 3: “Competition”
Place: Durres, Albania
Description: The City reflects urban stratification, but often the new screams, violates, disdain.
Loreta Çapeli is an architect, lecturer in the History of Architecture, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Polytechnic University, Tirana.
© Albert Cmeta “Evening over the City”
Author: Miranda Haxhi
Title: “Day and Night”
Place Tirana, Albania
Description: The photos were taken from the window of my house during carantine days. The contrast between uncontrolled cement, and the beautiful natural landscape that surrounds Tirana, remains the challenge of Tirana's urban development.
Miranda is an architect urban planner, she has worked at the National Institute of Urban Planning with City and Coastal Development plans.
Author: Vllasi Foto
Title: "The opposite summer"
Place: Independence Square, Vlora, Albania
Description: It was supposed to be a holiday, but the weather did not agree…luckily I had the camera with me.
© Vllasi Foto “The Opposite Summer”
Author: Fitim Haziri
Title: "Near"
Place: Prishtina, Kosovo
Description: In a restless city , in the twilight, the eyes have the opportunity to see the sunlight and its colors in the windows of its buildings.
© Fitim Haziri “Near”
Author: Catalina Aranguren
Title: “With my dog”
Place: Jersey City, USA
Description: This photograph was taken in April, after the Coronavirus made everyone scamper into their homes. No one was around, the streets were empty, and it would appear even more so with the doubling of the reflection. I am wearing a mask and walking my dog around the block.
© Catalina Aranguren “With my dog”
Author: Josep Sánchez
Title: “Tram Glories”
Place: Glories Square /Els Encants Market, Barcelona, Spain
Description: I take the snapshot near the Agbar Tower, just one step away from the Tram.
© Josep Sanchez “Tram Glories”
Author: Andi Papastefani
Title: “Yellow Corner”
Place: Street of Kavaja, Tirana, Albania
Facebook Sketches of the Cities - Andi Papastefani
© Andi Papastefani “Yellow Corner”
Author: Glendi Kurtiqi
Title: “Blazing Sunset”
Place: Tirana, Albania
© Glendi Kurtiqi “Blazing Sunset”
“Thank you for your participation in the Online Photography Exhibition MY CITY 2020 ”