In this special episode, contemporary artist Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss memory, displacement and the politics of image-making in Albania and the Western Balkans, through their ongoing photography project, Pasqyra e Lëndës (Sommarium, or ‘mirror of matter’).
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This episode was recorded live as part of the public programme for Summit Photo 2026, organised by the Royal Geographical Society, Photoworks, and the Royal Photographic Society, and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, in London in July 2026. Erdiola’s research will be exhibited in London at the conclusion of her Hidden Narratives Residency in 2027: rgs.org/events/summit-photo
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