To come back on the Marubi week of Projekt 5.6 here two exemples of old Marubi Pictures and new pictures in the same family. The Idea of the week was to meet peoples in Orozh wich own original Photos of there familys from the last century made by a Marubi Photografer.
For me very strange was the idea just to go there and visit the peoples instead of call them and ask them if ti will be ok to visit them, but i find out very quick here is another time and time understanding, and very important a different kind of hospitality.
So the system here is : the first person in the village who meets you at the street is taking care for you, invites you to visit his house, or brings you to the desired adress.
In our case it was a forester with a donkey, who brings us to the family of Gjonmarku, the own pictures from Marubi and showed us the Frame with there family memories.
One of our students, Brilanta started to make pictures, but inside the house so that we men where sitting in the garden drinking different drinks and talk with the "Kapedan" about life in albania.
Brilantas pictures are focused on the sitser of the "Kapedan" and on the daugter of him, and a group Portrait of the family.
Our other students Alketa, Erzen and Ornela visitet different familys in Orozh and what we all saw on the cameras also had a interessting time with people of the village. They where accompanied by Jutta Klosi Benzenberg.
In the evening we went back to Reshen, the net bigger town to sleep in a catholic monastery, wich was very confortable. There we select and print out the pictures for the people in Orozh.
These Pictures we brougt back to Orozh in the afternoon the next day, and as you see on the pictures below the "modells" liked the photos of themselves very much. Some students even started egain to do pictures of there "modells" and recognised very quick that now the "ice" between photografer and "modell" was totaly broken and the pictues could be much more personel and open from the modells side. Here you see Photografie is much about Trust and good relationsship between Photografer an "Modell".
On the way back to Tiana we all hade a very good feeling about our work the last two days, and if there is one word for our students in this situation this will be "I N F E C T E D", as on the first poster from Prjekt 5.6 in 2006.
We presented all this works on saturday to all the other students who had to stay in tirana for there work an could not join us in Orozh. Maybe we will see some landscapes or cityportraits in the marubi style in the next time on this blog or on the webside of projekt56.com
All our work in Shkodra and Orozh was accompained and filmed by the wonderfull two filmmakers Phillip and Max from Berlin Germany. It will be a Documentary about our work on the german austrian swiss TV station 3SAT and on the swiss TV station SF DRS. As soon we definitifly know when they will send it i will inform you here on this blog, maybe on swiss TV is will be on the 6. of August 22 50.
Here again thank you thousend times to all of you involved in this projekt starting by the studends, the staff, the people of Orozh, the director of the Marubi Collection, the Ministery of Culture of Albania, the filmcrew from Germany, Eliane Rutishauser in Zürich and last but not least the "silent" supporter from pro Helvetia in Tirana and Switzerland
Gian Vaitl, Zürich
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