galleries  26 albums, 819 photos on 9 pages   [login]     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   Athens before the Olympics 2004 Images from the streets of Athens, Greece, prior to its preparations for the Olympic Games of 2004. This selection consists of everyday life scenes taken through town. Dasma Wedding in an abandoned factory warehouse in the outskirts of Tirana in 1999. Some weddings are economic deals-rural girls marry very early just to live in the city. Tyl The social phenomenon of self-confinement due to self-justice, continues to cause deep wounds in the Albanian society. This phenomenon ist the bitter parenthesis of many critical issues, directly related to the non-functioning of the rule of law in the country, the absence of trust towards those and the paralysis of ist institutions. Than, a sad caravan of serious troubles follows: a life in extreme poverty, acceptance of a pact with the death, and absence of the right to live. Such phenomena hurt deeply when children, innocent persons, have to pay. Children self-confinement, as one of the most rare phenomena of nowadays worldwide, represents a vicious, complex, and delicate circle where tradition with ist myths, culture and inheritance darkens the hope.   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9