Rifo Dobra (born April 14, 1952) is an Albanian photographer from Kosovo.
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Early life and education
Dobra was born in Prishtina, and after finishing high school he moved to Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic today), where he was employed as a camera assistant at Czechoslovakia Television in Prague. From 1972, he studied cameras at the Prague Film and TV Academy (FAMU), which he completed in 1978.
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Careers
Dobra's first attempt in photography began when he was 15 years old. The first publication of his photographs in the Yugoslav press was followed by participation in many national exhibitions. In addition to the ads and creations of covers and calendars, Dobra is more inclined towards artistic photography, which gradually becomes the main focus. Gold medals in national and silver competitions in one international followed by his first private exhibition at Prishtina, in 1977, and several other exhibitions in Czechoslovakia (Prague), Germany (Kassel), and other European countries.
In 1991, Dobra established the first commercial photography gallery in Czechoslovakia, which held or participated in several exhibitions during the 1990s. Some of them are profitably oriented, such as the 1999 exhibition, which raised funds for refugee refugees from the Kosovo warfare, or the 2000 exhibition to raise funds for breast cancer victims in the Czech Republic.
Work
Dobra creates almost exclusively black-and-white hand photographs, in which hand coloring plays a certain role as a means of expression. Dobra's works are often still alive, featuring abstract themes of life (eggs), contrasting elements (a piece of watermelon pressed into an old bike carrier) and surrealist compositions, sometimes shunned by the works of classical surrealist painters such as Renà ©  © Magritte. The photography of Dobra is closely related to melancholy poems, often exhibited by wearing rotten old walls with falling and moldy plaster in the background, or other obsolete items (not infrequently contrasting with colorful, new and fragile things ).
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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