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It was when a children’s association in the Albanian capital Tirana, "Children Today", asked 32-year-old Bevis Fusha to photograph the phenomenon of the “blood feud” that he realized how difficult it would be.
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 for fear of being attacked.
“The 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 and to realize this I had very little time at my disposal, only four days,” says Bevis, whose father and brother are both famous photographers in Albania.
“I also did not want to make the story clichéd. So many photographers had gone down that route. I also did not want any invention, such as putting weapons in young people’s hands, as some foreign photographers had done”.
“The second problem was that the time was very short, just a few hours, during those four days. That would never be sufficient to achieve the proper visual sensitivity in each visited family.”
“So 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.”
Bevis is represented by the Anzenberger Agency in Vienna, and Metrocollective, a photo collective in Washington, USA.
He has worked for a variety of publications in his native Albania and exhibited widely at home and elsewhere.
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