Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert

occupation:
Photographer
Nationality:
Scottish

Born Glasgow 1969, photographer and photojournalist; studied photography and design at the College of Building and Printing, Glasgow (now City of Glasgow College); has worked for editorial, corporate and NGO clients for almost 20 years

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A black and white photograph taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Albania about 1990. 'Born in Southern Albania in 1908 Enver Hoxha became the First Secretary of the Albanian Communist Party in November 1941 and the President of the People's Republic of Albania in 1946, positions he was to hold until his death in 1985. Now as Albania rejects Marxist-Leninist Communism in favour of democracy and capitalism, his statues and other memorials have beeen removed from public display and abandoned - such as the one photographed here in an iron foundry in a rundown area of Tirana.'

Statue of Enver Hoxha
A black and white photograph taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Albania about 1990. 'Dr Sali Berisha, one of the founders of the Democratic Party in 1990 and the first Democratic President of Albania. Formerly, he was a leading heart surgeon but now battling to keep the country alive in the face of a bankrupt economy, price rises, food shortages and an emerging increase in crime, in an attempt to bring Albania to the level of its European counterparts'.

Dr Sali Berisha
A black and white photograph taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Albania about 1990. 'In a Tirana bread shop, men push and shove to buy limited supplies of bread. Enver Hoxha quote, 'Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles, we do not betray Marxism-Leninism'.'

In a Tirana bread shop…
A black and white photograph entitled 'Calderari Gypsy Children', taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Tintesti, Romania, about 1990.

Calderari Gypsy Children
A black and white photograph taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Albania about 1990. 'Zeth Raja, aged 55 with his son Aleks, 15 and his wife Zoja, 50, in their apartment in the northern city of Shkodra. Both Zeth and his son have been unable to leave their home in recent months due to their involvement in a blood feud with another family, Should they leave their home they run the risk of being attacked and killed, in revenge for an attack by Zeth, on a member of this other family. His wife is free to leave the apartment as the old tribal laws -the Kanunr - states that women are not affected by 'Hakmarrje' - revenge taking'.

Zeth Raja, aged 55 with his son Aleks, 15 and his wife Zoja, 50, in their apartment in the northern city of Shkodra
A black and white photograph entitled 'Gypsy Children', taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Tintesti, Romania, May 1991.

Gypsy Children
A black and white photograph entitled 'Calderari Gypsy', taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Ciurea, Romania, May 1991.

Calderari Gypsy
Collection of 76 black and white silver gelatin photographs of Romania and Albania, by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, winner of first Felix H Man prize for photojournalism, 1992.

Collection of Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert Photographs
A black and white photograph taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Albania about 1990. 'House interior in the village of Boga, in North West Albania'.

House interior in the village of Boga, in North West Albania
A black and white photograph taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Albania about 1990. 'Adbina Padi, aged 22, sits with the females of her family awaiting the arrival of her husband to be, who will take her to his home and to the church for a Catholic ceremony. Jubani'.

Adbina Padi, aged 22, sits with the females of her family…
A black and white photograph taken by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert in Albania about 1990. 'In the village of Boga, a young boy holds the skinned head of a goat, killed to provide food for his family'.

In the village of Boga, a young boy holds the skinned head of a goat, killed to provide food for his family

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