Honorable Mention TIFA 2023 Editorial / Photo Essay

Western Promises

  • Photographer
    Olsi Ballta
  • Photo Date
    16.04.2022 Durrës, Albania

They always gazed at the West. Filled with hopes and dreams. Hoping that someday they would enjoy a free life, joyful and fruitful. By the time we opened with the other side of sea, it was already too late for them. Now they wait, with the only hope that their children will soon come to visit and bring some western joy to their old, broken hearts. And they wait until they're forever gone.