About the authors:

Robert Elsie is a Canadian scholar and specialist in Albanian studies. He has published over sixty books about the country and its history and culture. He is currently based in Berlin, Germany. See www.elsie.de

Gerda Mulder has been travelling to Albania since the 1970s. She is the author of the first  Dutch-language travel guide to Albania (1983) and is currently general manager of the Dutch  Museum of Photography (Nederlands Fotomuseum) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where  she lives. See www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl Herman Zonderland is a noted professional photographer who lives in Delft, the  Netherlands. See www.zonderland.nl