TIRANA, October 22/ATA/ The exhibition “Albania 1921 – Eugène Pittard” opened at the Center for Openness and Dialogue (COD).

The exhibition is a unique journey through Albanian history and identity, through the lens of the distinguished Swiss anthropologist and academic Eugène Pittard.

The exhibition brings for the first time to the Albanian public a collection of photographs taken in 1921, which reflect the people, traditions, cities and landscapes of Albania at that time.

Visitors also watched a documentary film and saw through VR glasses an installation archival material that combines history with contemporary technology, offering an extraordinary sensory and emotional experience.

Present at the inauguration event were the curator of the exhibition Elton Koritari, the political writer Luan Rama, the researcher Kudret Isai, as well as the Swiss Ambassador to Albania Ruth Huber, who emphasized the significance of this project as a rare testimony of Swiss-Albanian friendship and the preservation of historical memory through art and photography.

During the evening, there was also promoted the official catalog of the exhibition, which summarizes the rare works and documents presented in this project, which will remain open to the public until November 13, 2025.

Pittard contributed strongly to the rights of Albania, its sovereignty and played a vital role in Albania's admission to the League of Nations. Together with his wife Helene Pittard, he came to Albania and met the most famous political and cultural figures of Albania in the 1920s. /j.p/p.s./