Alketa Misja
Tirana, Albania
Alketa Misja is an architect/urban planner and photographer from Albania. She graduated in 1995 as Architect Urban Planner in the Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania. From 1995-2007, she worked as full time lecturer in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Planning Department, and as part time lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Geography, of University of Tirana. She specialized in MBA in Faculty of Economics of Tirana and in professional courses on City Planning and Urban Management. In 2008, she took an interest in Photography as a tool to investigate different forms and outcomes of urban transformations. She followed the New York Institute of Photography in Professional Photography. Her work is recognized by international competitions and has participated in different exhibitions. Alketa has her private studio in Tirana, where she works in commissioned and personal photographic projects.
2015 - Honorable Mention Architecture/Industrial Category, 2014 - Nominee Architecture Category, 2013 - Nominee Architecture Category, 2013 - Juror Awards of Merit in Cityscape/Architecture, 2012 - Nominee Architecture Category, 2011 - Nominee Still Life Category
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ARTiFact Project (Volume1 Ex-Automobile Plant)
Alketa Misja
ARTifact is a photography Project in the environments of Ex-Automobile Plant of Tirana (Albania). I kept shooting the ruined machineries and abandoned industrial spaces for several months, few weeks before the machineries were gone forever to be destroyed. A closer look in the industrial technology before it gives place to the new economy. Their photography is the epilog of the industrialisation period in my country, where huge industries were built during socialism that couldn't survive in the post-industrial era.