Road Stop in Albania - featured in Travel Photography Adventures in Analog Times, photobook

Albania Road Trip
Mid Spring road trip with Yuri as guide and translator and Gjergj as driver and bodyguard, and yes we were carrying a rifle in the car. Not to be used, God forbid, but just because everybody else was carrying guns, either hanging from their belts or strapped on their shoulder. Besides that, Albania offered unexpected architectural beauties and almost unknown archeological sites, pristine outdoors but widespread poverty as the country had recently put an end to an almost four-decade-long strict dictatorship.

Canon A1, Canon T90. Ektachrome 100 and 400. I also carried around the whole country a Manfrotto tripod I wasn’t allowed to use either in mosques or in churches. When during transfers I cleaned the lenses with a sheet of Kodak lens cleaning paper, Gjergj always silently followed the entire operation then suddenly burst in an amused laugh.

In the nineties I had the chance to work extensively for a few travel and life-style magazines while I was based first in Milan, Italy and later in New York, NY. When on assignment the schedule was usually tight and the time to photograph not always in sync with the best light or weather conditions, it happens. Nonetheless I always managed to bring home the result and keep my editors happy, which is paramount if you want to land more assignments that, by the way, brought me to several countries around the world.

Some assignments were more fun than others, or easier to accomplish but, nevertheless, each one of them was a good experience and left enriching memories.

A selection of the images shot then are now part of a photobook, a great collection of beautiful pictures and enriching anecdotes.
It comes in print and digital.
More info here: bit.ly/tpa_photobook.

Taken in: Albania / Qarku i Vlorës / Dhërmi (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1993

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