VANCON Laetitia

Photographer, Visual Storyteller
   My Home,My Prison by @laetitiavancon 
My Home,My Prison
Location: Munich
Nationality: French
Biography: Laetitia Vançon is a French photographer based in Germany, recognized for her powerful and thoughtful documentary and journalistic work over the past decade. She is known for her ability to capture the essence of her subjects and their... MORE
Private Story
My Home,My Prison
Copyright @laetitiavancon 2024
Date of Work Feb 2014 - Apr 2017
Updated Dec 2017
Location shkodra
Topics Adolescence, Children, Corruption, Crime, Documentary, Dreams, Dying/Death, Editorial, Education, Fine Art, Isolation, Landscape, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Poverty, Prison, Violence, Youth
In nowadays blood feud is defined as a serious social plague in the Albanian society. It reveals the power vacuum that characterized post-communist Albania, and especially the extremely corrupt, slow, and unreliable judiciary system. It shows the incapacity of the state in defending the fundamental human right to life as the most fundamental and important right of individual protected by law: the right to education, social life, and freedom.

The Vukaj family of northern Albania, have been trapped in a blood feud conflict for 20 years.
Isolated, unconsidered, and dependant on corrupt public administrations, their entire life have been deprived. What could you aspire to be, to do, or to say when the only space of freedom you have is your home, when this home turns finally into your prison?

In North of Albania, the ancestral social code, so-called "žKanun," emerges again after the fall of the communism time in 1991. In 2014, the kanun was a degenerated version without boundaries and exceptions. It becomes total confusion. A deep social wound with too many bitter consequences, and a flagrant violation of human rights - Right to life, freedom, and justice, to education and social security. Since 20 years, the family Vukaj is trapped in one of those tragic stories. Lock inside their house, their only crime is to belong to "žwrong" clan.
Blood feud blights the entire life of this family. It has created a climate of fear, stress, and anxiety that casts a shadow over them, depriving them of free interaction with their neighbors and community. As trees are branded to be cut down, they carry signs of death - tired, afflicted, socially isolated. They sound like stories from another age, but they're only two hours away by plane from Geneva or Milan. North of Albania, although close geographically, remains mainly unknown and impenetrable from the rest of Europe.

LinkedIn Icon Facebook Icon Twitter Icon
4,153

Also by VANCON Laetitia —

Story [Unlisted]

LIBERATION PANAMA PAPERS

VANCON Laetitia
Story [Unlisted]

GREY GOOSE

VANCON Laetitia
Story [Unlisted]

At The End Of the Day

@laetitiavancon / hebrides lewis
Story [Unlisted]

Travels

VANCON Laetitia
Story [Unlisted]

Portraits

VANCON Laetitia
Story [Unlisted]

From God and Snake

VANCON Laetitia / Bosnia
Story [Unlisted]

Hold On Hopes

VANCON Laetitia / Munich
Story [Unlisted]

Life carries on

VANCON Laetitia / Istanbul
Story [Unlisted]

Where Is The Kid I Was

VANCON Laetitia / Alès
Story [Unlisted]

About

VANCON Laetitia
Story [Unlisted]

She said Yes

Laetitia Vancon
My Home,My Prison by @laetitiavancon
Sign-up for
For more access