Theory & Practice

Albania: A Homecoming

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Traveling by train from Presevo to the northern Serbian town of Sid. January 24, 2016.
Macedonian Army engineers built a fence on the border line between Macedonia and Greece, near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, leaving thousands of people between the two countries. Idome (...)
Near the city center, nowadays a very dangerous area. Katerina, 24 years old, from Greece works as a sex worker, and spends the money she earns on drugs. Mario, 32 years old, from Algeria. It’s bee (...)
Boy playing in his neighborhood in the suburbs of Tirana. Albania. 2015.
A group of men on their way to the cemetery. Bajram Curri, Albania. November 2009.
Coffee Bar Restaurant. Diber, Albania. April 2015.
Woodman. Kukes, Albania. 2014. All images © Enri Canaj / Magnum Photos
Mother and son spending their afternoon in the valley. Kukes, Albania. August 2014.
Hajria, 52, and Gonxhe, 50. Best friends since forever: they said. Both friends work as waiters at the train coffee shop for many years. Tirana, Albania. August 2015.
A sheep inside a local van. North Albania. April 2014.
A bridal dress salon in the suburb of the city. This is the most developed business in this area. Tirana, Albania. January 2013.
Summer in Moria. Lesbos, Greece. June 2015.
Fateme and Ahmed during their afternoon stroll in rural Serbia. They left Kabul running away from violence. In one of the attempts to reach west Europe, a fatal accident took away their grandmother (...)
As thousands of asylum seekers remained homeless four days after Europe's largest migrant camp was destroyed by fire. Round-the-clock efforts to find temporary shelter for over 11,000 people includ (...)
Eight-year-old Masha from Afghanistan, inside the Moria camp. She's looking for possessions that were not destroyed in the fire with her uncle and cousin. Lesbos, Greece. September 24, 2020.
A Syrian mother holds her four-month-old baby just after crossing the sea border between Turkey and Greece by boat. Inousa, Greece. September 2014.
Refugees wrapped themselves with thermal blankets after their arrival on a dinghy from the Turkish coast. Lesbos, Greece. October 2015.
Hiding from police patrol. Northern Greece. May 2015.
A small boat with refugees and migrants reached safely the Greek coast. It was hard to get the boat to land because of the bad sea. Lesbos, Greece. October 2015.
A man who had been beaten by a bunch of men in the city center. Athens, Greece. December 2012.
Inside a Bangladeshi immigrant's home. This small room used to shared with five other people. Greece, Athens. November 2012.
A path behind Omonia Square where drug users usually stay. Athens, Greece, November 2012.
Hasan, 22 years old, in an abandoned factory. Patra, Greece. April 2012.
Abandoned area near the city center. Athens, Greece, January 2013.
Kostas, 24, and his siblings inside a car. Athens, Greece. 2012.
Canaj and his sister in Athens, one of the photographs that they would send back to their family in Albania.
Enri Canaj, aged 12, sitting next to a basket of bread.
Early images from Canaj's childhood, one of the only posessions taken by the family as they left Albania for Greece.
Enri Canaj's first passport picture, taken before emigrating to Greece in 1991.