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  • Droviani.  Main hall in a cultural centre, build in 1967 the year when Albania proclaimed itself the first atheist state in the world. Cultural centres built usually in place of churches  in an attempt to replace religion with Marxism. After the collapse of communism, people returned to churches and abolished the cultural centres.
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  • Livadia, school. A disected hare. When I photographed this display the director of the school asked for a huge amount of money. He said that no one outside Albania has ever seen such a thing. He chased me through the village.
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  • Livadia. Biology class display.
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  • Theologos, Health centre. I asked three men about this building. The first one told me that the Italians built it as a hospital, after the war the secret police used it as an interrogation place, many people were tortured there.  The second one told me that it was built as a school by a rich Greek from Egypt in the 1930’s. During the Italian occupation the fascists were torturing the Partizans there. <br />
The third man told me that it was built by Enver Hoxha and it served always as a health centre.
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  • Sminetsi. When the school was closed  the teachers tidied up the place. The bunny was humanitarian aid from Greece;  now it holds the maps.
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  • Square in Argirokastro / Gjirokastër
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  • Droviani, cultural centre. BEFORE bottles were precious and people collected them.
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  • Cultural centre, Droviani.
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  • Smiling patient in the Hospital of Ayii Saranta. During the riots of 1997 armed men looted the hospital. Whatever wasn't useful to them was thrown out of the windows.
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  • Kalivia. Chair in the corridor of the school.
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  • This is the central square in Divri on my first visit to the village; on the left was a cultural centre, built in 1967 above  the  church, then demolished for the rebuilt church. The plan was to build a bell tower higher than the communist memorial.
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  • Aliko. The statue of a girl with a broken nose. The teachers told me that BEFORE there was a beautiful garden, the pride of the village.
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  • The office of the headmaster of the agricultural college of Grava. The only room with window glass  and curtains.
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  • Examilia. Most of the products come from Greece. The village has orange groves but oranges were rotting in the ground.
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  • On the top of the Ottoman castle in Argirokastro /Gjirokaster. The metal structure was the main stage for the Albanian folklore festival.
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  • Koulouritsa. Almost everyone told me that the worst thing during communism wasn’t poverty, lack of infrastructure or the isolation from the rest of the world, it was the fear of speaking freely even to your own children
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  • Ayii Saranta. Hospital room.
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  • Grava agricultural college. In 1989 there were 500 students, some of them boarders.
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  • Cinema complex build in the early 1980's for the high-ranking party members in the resort of Examilia. After the collapse of communism, the place was looted. The man was the projectionist.
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  • Pupil in the elementary school of Kalivia. There are 11 abandoned classrooms in the school, the twelfth serves the school.
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  • Ayii Saranta. The drug cabinet in the paediatric clinic of Ayii Saranta. Despite the lack of modern medicine and equipment, the clinic was clean and tidy and I could not see any dust at all on the glass shelves.
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  • Maki Mihail (66) in his field near Kallamas, Albania
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  • Flooded football pitch near the village of Rakicke, Albania
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  • Man fishing in the small Prespa near the village of Tren, Albania
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  • Helvis (15) from Tren at the very end of small Prespa lake, Albania
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  • Pola Burmo (70) in the village of Kallamas, Albania
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  • Mateo Kape (18) from Tren at the very end of small Prespa lake, Albania
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  • Helvis (15) from Tren at the very end of small Prespa lake, Albania
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  • Rodina and Stefan Burmo (70) in the village of Tuminec, Albania
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  • Zugra Marko (64) in Pustec, Albania
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  • Todora Burmo (73) in her field near Kallamas, Albania
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  • Jovan Malevski (71) in his field near the village of Glloboçeni, Albania
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  • Matteo (1) and Renato (23) outside their house in the village of Rakicke, Albania
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  • Dimitre Stavre (75) with his donkey in Liqenes, Albania
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  • No import without export / Villager of Rakicke without hat
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  • Lek changing hands / Girls dancing
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  • Steps / Berxolla
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  • Tave / Kids
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  • Florian Bode and his son / Field
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  • Chair / he shopkeeper of Rakicke
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  • Villager of Rakicke with hat II / Socialism has in its nature conservation
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  • Villager of Rakicke with hat I  / Zrnosko
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  • 387,000 Lek / Croatian Toblerone
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  • Bird standing on a television / 3 cans of coke and one can of ivi
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  • Pipe / Church
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  • Fox with sunglasses  / Kid
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  • Florian Bode  / Trench
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  • The coffee shop of Rakicke / Curtains with squirrels
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  • Domino / Table and stove
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  • Stenje kids / Albania
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  • Valentino from Korce, Albania in Fonias beach. Elefsina, Saronic Gulf, West Attica.  A shipwreck, next to Halyvourgiki steel mill. Aspropyrgos, Saronic Gulf, Western Attica
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  • Communist monument to partisans in Šulin, Albania
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  • Kico Kitan (70) in his field near the village of Tuminec, Albania
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