Tuesday 1 April 2014

Enri Canaj, Albanian Photographer in Greece



Enri Canaj's website

Paris Match

From Enri's website:

"Enri Canaj was born in Tirana, Albania, in 1980. He spent his early childhood there and moved with his family to Greece in 1991, immediately after the opening of the borders. He is based in Athens and covers stories in Greece and the Balkans.

He studied photography at the Leica Academy in Athens. In 2007 he took part in a British Council project on migration, attending a year-long workshop with Magnum photographer Nikos Economopoulos.

(City Street, a British Council photography workshop with Nikos Economopoulos, a Magnum photographer, Athens, Greece , 2007- 2008)

Since 2008, he has been a freelance photographer for major publications such as Time Magazine Lightbox,Newsweek, Le monde Diplomatique (German edition),TO VIMA, TA NEA, Tachydromos and VIMAGAZINO. A sample of his work has been exhibited at the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece in Athens and Salonica, at the Bilgi Santral in Istanbul, the European Parliament in Brussels and the Athens Photo Festival. He has been working in the Balkans, mainly Kosovo and Albania, as well as Greece, focusing on migration and the recent crisis. His work is recently published on Burn Magazine, Foto8 Magazine London. Winner of the juried JGS Content, 1st Quarter 2013".

Update, Kathimerini

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