Photography Exhibition SUMMER IN CITY 2020
Tatì Space
TatìSpace presents the second online photo exhibition with the theme "SUMMER IN CITY". In these difficult pandemic times for the whole world, we asked photographers from all over the world, professionals and amateurs, of different ages and professions, to respond to the theme of the city during summer. This summer was unusual for all of us. In absence of freedom of movement and the many problems that the pandemic brought, our lives were not the same. Most of us were forced not to travel as usual but to stay in the same place of residence, being adopted into a new relationship with the city and its fellow citizens. In this period, photography remained a faithful companion and a worthy visual reflection of our experiences in this new relationship between citizens, society and territory. Hoping that you will enjoy in this Exhibition pieces of different experiences from the participating photographers, we thank all the artists who responded to our invitation.
Thank You!
TatìSpace
Author: Rozafa Shpuza
Title: “Waiting”
Place: Shkodër, Albania
Description: The pandemic made the city anxiously await people's steps, smiles, haste, conversations. Everything fell silent and the empty chairs waited in hope that they would be accompanied again by the people, who would sit carefree to drink a coffee.
© Rozafa Shpuza “Waiting”
© Genta Karanxha “Late Night Walk”
Author: Michelle Mayer
Title: “Border Crossing”
Place: Border of Hoboken and Jersey City, New Jersey
Description: Fewer cars traveling on now uncrowded city streets has meant cleaner air and a drastic rise in birdsong this summer. Here at what is normally an excessively busy intersection -- busy with cars and pedestrians below and a light rail above -- two pigeons relax, despite momentarily eyeing a curious photographer as she passes the border between Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey.
© Michelle Mayer “Border Crossing”
Author: Rudina Aleksi
Title: “Escape from the City”
Place: Toronto Canada
Description: Photo taken from Toronto Centre Island. Centre Island is a 10min boat ride from Toronto Harbourfront and offers spectacular views of the Toronto skyline. Everyone wants to escape sometimes.
Rudina Aleksi graduated in 1995 from the Polytechnical University of Tirana, with a degree in Architecture, major Urban Planning. She has worked for two years in the Urban Planning department of the city of Fier, before moving to Toronto, Canada, where she has been living for 22 years. Architectural firms where she has been working include PDA Architects and HOK Canada. Currently, she has been working with BH Architects for almost 11 years now.
© Rudina Aleksi “Escape from the City”
Author: Albert Cmeta.
Title: “Kids find game everywhere”
Place: Former fields of aviation, Tirana
Description: The children of the neighbourhood, at the former aviation field, in absence of games dedicated to this age group, found a fun way to play (jumping on the fountains, since it was summer, refreshing themselves at the same time :-)). Children have the ability to turn everything into a game ...
© Albert Cmeta “Kids find game everywhere”
Author: Doriana D. Musaj
Title Photo 1: “The wall of tears”
The logo of the 100th anniversary of Tirana as the capital used as a seal for the crime committed, that of the destruction of the Theater on May 17, 2020. The first summer without a Theater.
Title Photo 2: “Postcard Tirana 2020”
The last image of the City Clock without the towers, shadowing its era. The classic black and white postcard of Tirana ...
Title Photo 3: “Graffiti”
Puppet Theater Square at noon, in a day of July, a favorite place of teens who use graffiti to scream against the conventionality of their time.
Author: Loreta Çapeli
Title: “A little of Corbusier in the City”
Place: Tirana, Albania
Loreta Çapeli is an architect, lecturer in the History of Architecture, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Polytechnic University, Tirana. Her main areas of research are the History of Architecture, both, of the World and the Albanian one, also the critics and the architectural analysis of built typologies, the re-evaluation and restoration of the monuments of cultural heritage.
Author: Miranda Haxhi
Title: “A summer day in the surrounding hills of Tirana”
Place: Tirana Albania
Miranda Haxhi is an architect urban planner, she has worked at the National Institute of Urban Planning in Cities and Coastal Development Plans.
© Miranda Haxhi “A summer day in the surrounding hills of Tirana”
© Alketa Misja, Himara by Night