1920s. Women and men in national costumes, from south to north, in bazaars, cities, villages, riding on horseback, with loads on their backs, filling water, with weapons on their shoulders and plis, qeleshe or headscarves on their heads, with xhublets, frocks, shajak, opinga, citjane and vests. A workshop with art and design students was held on the photographs of the 1920s by the Swiss anthropologist Eugene Pittard.

While the images show Albanians from rural and urban areas of 100 years ago, art educators brought to attention anthropological, cultural and social aspects of the images, re-emphasizing the values ​​that completely unknown images preserve, while the Swiss Embassy in Tirana brought the rare collection from Geneva to Albania.
Pedagogy Orestia Kapidani focused on some of the experiences and impressions that the viewer receives.

A film material showed Pittard's images and a look at the scholars who have researched his work in Albania. While the photographs are now on display near the pyramid, Ambassador Ruth Huber, scholar Luan Rama and curator Elton Koritari praised the humanitarianism, diplomacy and advocacy that Pittard did for Albania in the difficult years of the 1920s.

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