galleries  26 albums, 819 photos on 9 pages   [login]     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   Isolated Bertelec is an isolated village located in the northern mountains of Albania. About 30 families live there and during the winter they conduct quite a sheltered life due to the cold and difficult weather conditions. Almost their whole summer is spent cutting wood in the forests close to them and preparing to face the winter. The inhabitants conduct a poor, quiet and worrieless life. They have been able to survive by securing food and other needs themselves. Dancers A portrait of Brigel Gjoka, a well known Albanian ballet dancer. Brigel has completed ballet school in Tirana. For two years he has been engaged at the Junior Ballet of Cannes, France and then continued on performing for three years in a row as a soloist at the Ballet de l'Opera du Rhin France. Currently he is a soloist ballet dancer in Staatstheater Mainz Germany. Blinded by Fame Beauty pageants have turned into a process that converts the female into an elite that can be manipulated by various visual media. By being in different multi-cultural societies, these media globally consume the image of beauty. The pageants, even though they hold different values in the multi-cultural diversities,in the end they provide the same conclusion. The desire to be the image of the most beautiful female, creates the "poster" female, a female of a special beauty that is used in the global market of fashion. The "Miss" crown holders from various countries were asked to pose with their eyes closed, this way performing the moment of becoming a visual object of beauty, one which is manipulated.   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9