Jutta Benzenberg studied photography at the “Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign” München (DE) and worked afterwards as a photographer for different magazines and theatres.

Additionally, she worked with some TV-stations such as BR first as a camera assistant and at the privat TV as a cameraman as well.

1991 she travelled for the first time through Albania with her husband the Albanian writer Ardian Klosi to shoot photographs of those upset times, to capture Albanian portraits and landscapes.

After several Albania-journeys Jutta Benzenberg and Ardian Klosi published a book in spring 1993 in Salzburg, Austria, under the title: “Albanisches Überleben” – “Albanian Survival” at t Otto Müller Verlag in Salzburg.

Since then Jutta had many exhibitions on Albanian themes in different cities of Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Albania.

Jutta Benzenberg’s and Ardian Klosi’s second book „Bukuri e rëndë“ – „Sombre Beauty“ sponsored by the Swiss culture foundation Pro Helvetia was published in Tirana in 2004.

With the photographs of this book she exhibited at the Biennial Arts Festival Tirana (AL), Think Pink (Prishtina, KO), Goethe Institut (Thessaloniki and Athens, GR) among others.

2011 her 3. book ”Ahead with the Past” sponsored by the Swiss Foundation DEZA, was published by Fotohof Salzburg Austria.

Her last Solo and Group Exhibitions were held in

Rumania, Austria, Kosovo, Greece, Germany, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania

and in USA.(Washington DC)Latin America.

2013 to 2014 she worked as the official Photographer of the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.

2015-2017 she was based in Berlin at the Albanian Embassy as the cultural adviser with a project “Albania meets Germany”.

She also gives Photo Workshops (Storytelling and Portraits) in collaboration with Fotohof Salzburg, Kunstbox Seekirchen, ECCE (Austria).

Her new projects are
“I have a dream” supported by UN WOMEN Albania 2022

“Leben erzählen” supported by ecce Theatre Austria
God in Albania , supported by the German Embassy Tirana and Auswärtiges Amt Berlin. 2021

“The Forgotten in Europe”, which is a collaboration with 3 other Photographers from Germany, Belarus, Italy and Goethe Institut Mailand. 2019

Her current exhibition is her Retrospective “Albanian Biography” From nowto 1991. shown at the National Photo Museum Marubi in Shkodra. 09.06 2022-06.11 2022. 

For the moment she is based in Munich and Tirana. She is represented by Fotohof Salzburg.