The burned-out Leksovič by the Greeks, the poor Albanians under the rule of hunger, the women of Mirditore with burdens on their backs, Durrës and the house of Prince Vid, lakes, mountains, rivers, bazaars of Tirana and Kruja, the dancers of Gjirokastra!

Albania in 1921, poor, ruined, unbuilt, between misery and pride, between tradition and the desire to develop, between Ottoman influences and the pull towards the West, between Balkan interests and the protection of well-wishers. Rare images of Eugene Pittard, Swiss anthropologist, archaeologist, academic and humanist, are displayed in an exhibition at COD in the Prime Minister's Office.

They were realized from the Pittard couple's visits to Albania at the time, from south to north, documenting the time and places while the nation was still with unclear borders and an even more unclear future. Under the care of the Swiss embassy in Albania, the exhibition re-emphasizes the connection between peoples through a figure like Pittard who helped not only politically in the League of Nations but also in the social prism during the famine crisis, culturally with the discoveries on the train and historically by preserving this treasure of images in the Geneva Museum that he founded.

In an interview with researcher Luan Rama, the figure of the couple Eugene and Helene Pittard, who meet Kolë Idromenon in the north, citizens and residents of remote areas while traveling by horse, comes more complete.