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List Of Albanian Photographers
This is a list of Albanians, Albanian photographers. Photographers from Albania * Jani Zengo (1832–1913) * Kristo Sulidhi (1858–1938) * Kolë Idromeno (1860–1939) * Mati Kodheli (1862–1881) * Kel Marubi (1870–1940) * Gegë Marubi (1907–1984) * Refik Veseli (1926–2000) Photographers from Kosovo * Rifo Dobra (1952) * Burim Myftiu (1961) * Fadil Berisha (1973) Photographers from North Macedonia * Bajazid Doda (1888–1933) * Mimoza Veliu (1979) Albanian-American Photographers * Gjon Mili (1904–1984) * George Tames (1919–1994) * Emin Kadi References {{European topic, List of, photographers Albanian photographers Lists of Albanian people by occupation, Photographers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albanians
The Albanians (; sq, Shqiptarët ) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language. They primarily live in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia as well as in Croatia, Greece, Italy and Turkey. They also constitute a large diaspora with several communities established across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Albanians have Paleo-Balkanic origins. Exclusively attributing these origins to the Illyrians, Thracians or other Paleo-Balkan people is still a matter of debate among historians and ethnologists. The first certain reference to Albanians as an ethnic group comes from 11th century chronicler Michael Attaleiates who describes them as living in the theme of Dyrrhachium. The Shkumbin River roughly demarcates the Albanian language between Gheg and Tosk dialects. Christianity in Albania was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome until the 8th century AD. Then, dioceses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burim Myftiu
Burim Myftiu (born 1961) is an Albanian American contemporary photographer. Early life Myftiu was born in Prizren, Yugoslavia (in today's Kosovo). Career Burim Myftiu holds a Master's Degree in Visual Arts. He teaches photography at AAB University. His passion for photography started in early 1980s. He initially studied Linguistics at the University of Prishtina. Later he specialized Commercial Photography in New York City. In 2003, he founded PACK (Photo Arts Collective of Kosovo). Myftiu is co-founder and director of DOKUFEST - International Documentary and Short Film Festival - Dokufest. He is the curator of the International Photography Exhibition, "Gjon Mili Prize", at the National Art Gallery in Pristina, Kosovo. Myftiu has participated in juries of film festivals and photography contests. Additionally, he is a founder of Kosova Images Photo Agency, and has served as a regional liaison officer of the Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique (FIAP). He was app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emin Kadi
Emin Kadi is an American-Albanian fashion photographer, journalist, art director and magazine publisher. Born in Detroit (first-generation American of Albanian descent), he studied architecture and later became a fashion model. Kadi later became a self-taught fashion photographer. He is the founder, creative director, contributing photographer and publisher of Clear Magazine. He also started an image branding and app development company called Dfiant Media. He owns and rents several properties throughout the metro-Detroit area. Photography In 1990 Kadi decided to pursue fashion photography, as a result of being influenced by fashion through his previous modeling career. His work can be seen in both fashion magazines and campaigns including being published in Italian Vogue, Prim, WestEast magazine, PDN, Dwell, Picture, and is currently a regular contributor to Clear. He has worked with top models in the fashion industry such as Miranda Kerr, Candice Swanepool, May Andersen, Madele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Tames
George Tames (January 21, 1919 – February 23, 1994) was an American -Greek and Albanian ( Himara Region) photographer for ''The New York Times'' from 1945-1985. As a newspaper photographer, Tames was a regular on Capitol Hill over a span of forty years. Biography Born in Washington, D.C., Tames was a first generation American child of Greek - Albanian immigrants who grew up not speaking English at home. He dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, and took a job as an officeboy in the Washington bureau of Time-Life to help out the family. His career in photography began in 1940 in Washington D.C. Tames went with the Capitol Hill photographers on assignments and eventually photographed individual members. He photographed meetings of the Truman Committee. He developed access to and captured the likeness of numerous members of the United States Congress, and had his work reproduced in many influential publications. He developed a style contrary to the "herd instinct" of pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gjon Mili
Gjon Mili (November 28, 1904 – February 14, 1984) was an Albanian photographer from Korçë who developed his profession in America, best known for his work published in ''Life'', in which he photographed artists such as Pablo Picasso. Biography Born to Vasil Mili and Viktori Cekani in Korçë, in the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Albania). Mili spent his childhood in Romania, attending Gheorghe Lazăr National College in Bucharest, and migrating to the United States in 1923. In 1939, Mili started to work as a photographer for ''Life'' (a position he held until he died in 1984). Over the years his assignments took him to the Riviera (Picasso); to Prades, France (Pau Casals in exile); to Israel (Adolf Eichmann in captivity); to Florence, Athens, Dublin, Berlin, Venice, Rome, and to Hollywood to photograph celebrities and artists, sports events, concerts, sculptures and architecture. Working with Harold Eugene Edgerton of MIT, Gjon Mili was a pioneer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimoza Veliu
Mimoza Veliu (born 28 March 1979) is an Albanian photographer, based in Berlin. At the center of her art photography is the human being who opposes apparent boundaries. In 2008 she was awarded the first prize for art photography from Kosova National Art Gallery together with the colleague from Italy Linda Vukaj Riccomini. Veliu was born in Tetovo, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...). References External links Mimoza Veliu Photography {{DEFAULTSORT:Veliu, Mimoza 1979 births Living people Albanians in North Macedonia Albanian photographers Albanian women photographers 21st-century women photographers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bajazid Doda
Bajazid Elmaz Doda (1888–1933) was an Albanian ethnographic writer and photographer. He is the author of the book ''Albanisches Bauerleben im oberen Rekatal bei Dibra (Makedonien) (Albanian Peasant Life in the Upper Reka Valley near Dibra (Macedonia))'', written in Vienna in 1914, as well as of numerous rare early-20th-century photos of Albanian-inhabited lands during the period when they belonged to the Ottoman Empire, especially of Upper Reka, his birthplace region. The fossil turtle species '' Kallokibotion bajazidi'' was named after him by his lover Franz Nopcsa. Life Bajazid Doda was born in 1888 in Štirovica, an Albanian-inhabited village of the Upper Reka region of Macedonia in what was then the Ottoman Empire. He went to Romania to work abroad, like many other Upper Reka inhabitants. In Bucharest, Romania, in 1906 he met the Hungarian baron and scholar Franz Nopcsa (1877–1933), who hired him as his servant. The two became lovers and began to live together. Nopcsa and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fadil Berisha
Fadil Berisha is an Albanian-American fashion photographer living in New York City. He was once the official photographer for Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Rolex Rolex SA () is a British-founded Swiss watch designer and manufacturer based in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1905 as ''Wilsdorf and Davis'' by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis in London, the company registered ''Rolex'' as the brand name of .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Berisha, Fadil Albanian photographers American photographers Living people 1973 births Yugoslav emigrants to the United States People from Tropojë ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rifo Dobra
Rifo Dobra (born 14 April 1952) is an Albanian photographer from Kosovo. Early life and education Dobra was born in Prishtina, and after finishing secondary school he moved to Czechoslovakia (today's Czech Republic), where he was employed as a camera assistant in the Czechoslovak Television in Prague. From 1972, he was studying camera the Prague Film and TV Academy (FAMU), which he successfully finished in 1978. Career Dobra's first attempts at photography began when he was 15. The first publication of his photos in the Yugoslavian press were followed by a participation in many national exhibitions. Besides advertisement and creations of covers and calendars, Dobra inclined more and more towards artistic photography, which gradually became his main focus. The gold medal in the national competition and silver one in an international one were followed by his first personal exhibition in Prishtina, in 1977, and several other exhibitions in Czechoslovakia (Prague), Germany (Kasse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jani Zengo
Jani Ndoni Zengo (Papajani) (1832–1913) was an Albanian photographer, calligrapher, teacher and priest. He is widely recognized as the first person to practice photography in Albania. Life Papa Jani Zengo was born on 17 January 1832 in the mountainous village of Dardhë, southeastern Albania, the son of local priest Andon Zengo (Papa Ndoni) and a homemaker. Zengo finished his elementary schooling in Dardhë and later attended the Greek Gymnasium of Korçë. He was sent by his father to Mount Athos, Greece where he learned the craft of xylography which he practiced as a profession. There, the young Zengo became acquainted with the newly formed craft of photography. Two years later he returned to Albania and began work as a carpenter. From 1859 to 1862 he was appointed teacher in Ziçisht and then Pisoder. In a manuscript dated 15.01.1866, Jani is mentioned to have created an alphabet in the Albanian language containing 33 letters. In 1869, he married a local villager by the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Refik Veseli
Refik Veseli (1 January 1926–2000) was an Albanian photographer and formerly a co-founder of the Albanian Institute of Monuments. He was decorated along with his family by the state of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jews during the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... Biography Veseli was a 17 year old Muslim, born and raised in the rural city of Kruja in the mountains of Albania. Refik is one of thousands of Albanians who risked their lives to save the lives of Jews during World War II. He was president of the Albania-Israel Friendship Society in Tirana. In 2014, a school was named after him in Berlin, the Refik Veseli Schule. Publications * ''Berati: qutet-muze,'' 1987, Refik Veseli * ''Architectural monuments in Albania,' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gegë Marubi
Geg Marubi (9 May 1907 – 28 May 1984) was an Albanian photographer and son of Kel Marubi. He was the last photographer of his family and is regarded as one of the most prominent Balkan photographers of his generation. Life Born in 1907 in Shkodër, in the 1920s he studied photography in the Lumière brothers Lumière is French for 'light'. Lumiere, Lumière or Lumieres may refer to: *Lumières, the philosophical movement in the Age of Enlightenment People *Auguste and Louis Lumière, French pioneers in film-making Film and TV * Institut Lumière, a ...' school. After his return to Albania the Marubi studio experienced the most success in its history. Marubi pioneered the use of celluloid instead of glass plates. During World War II his photographic activities were halted and after the war as private businesses were banned the studio was closed. In the 1970s he donated the studio's photographic collection consisting of 150.000 negatives to the directorate of general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
