Servants of the Lord and the Virgin Mary of Matará in Vlora on the Adriatic Sea. The nuns pray and are active in charitable and pastoral work.
Historic Orthodox church in the village of Vuno, Southern Albania.
A dervish in his Tekke in Gjirokastra
Prayer at the celebration of breaking the fast (Ramadan Bayram) on Skanderbeg Square in Tirana.
Pilgrims on their way to the monastery of St. Anthony, which is considered the most important place of Christian pilgrimage in the country. Visitors include many Muslims and Bektashi.
Visit of Pope Francis in Tirana
Prayer at the celebration of breaking the fast (Ramadan Bayram) on Skanderbeg Square in Tirana.
Student of the Madrasa of Shkodra, Northern Albania
Franciscan nun from Shkodra, Northern Albania
Prayer at the celebration of breaking the fast (Ramadan Bayram) on Skanderbeg Square in Tirana.
St. Anthony pilgrim in Laç. In the eyes of believers the rocks promise healing and protection.
Mosque in Shkodra, Northern Albania
Muslim women on the Dati mountain.
Prayer at the celebration of breaking the fast (Ramadan Bayram) on Skanderbeg Square in Tirana.
Orthodox Church in Pogradec.
Shen Vasil, Southern Albania.
The grave of a Franciscan monk in Shkodra. One of the many martyrs murdered during the regime of Enver Hoxha.
Orthodox baptism in Vuno, Southern Albania
Convent of the Barefoot Carmelite Sisters in Nënshat Parish near Shkodra, Norther Albania.
Baptism of Protestant faithful in the Adriatic Sea, Northern Albania.
Astrulla Sinaj Jomtof from the small Jewish community of Vlora. She has been married to a Muslim for almost 40 years.
Hafiz Ali Korça and the new mosque in Tirana. Korça is a symbol of the Muslim community as he was the first to denounce Albanian Communism with his 1925 paper “Bolshevism or the destruction of humanity".
Celebration of the Muslim community in the Tirana Congress Palace.
God in Albania
Albania is unique. This statement may seems exaggerated in many ways, but it certainly applies to the area of religion, at least in the European context. Nowhere else on the continent do so many religions exist side by side: Catholic and Orthodoc Christianity, Sunni Islam and the Bektashi order, plus small a small Jewish communty and more recently, protestant faith group. But what makes Albania genuinely unique is its state atheism. From 1967 until the fall of the communist regime, all religions were banned.
I am fascinated by the fact that people in Albania live in peace with each other, despite having different religions. With this project I wanted to expose this unique feature of the country. Combining portraits with documentary photographs made this project even more special to me.