Tyl
by Bevis Fusha
Tyl means ‘curtain’ in Albanian.
The blood feud goes back many years in Albania. After a member of a family is killed by someone from another family, revenge is sworn and can even involve young children deemed to be ‘guilty’.
As a result, families in large numbers are forced to leave their homes - or, never leave their homes - for fear of being attacked.
“My aim was to show the daily lives, pain and terrible history of those who are not able to go out of their homes for years… I decided to hold on to a naive and childish prospective. A photographic history filled with fences, flowers and other symbols, to point out the essence of the phenomenon.”
A vicious and complex circle where tradition, myth, culture and inheritance darken hope.
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