Çika was director of the photography department at the Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) during 1980-1985, where he created a new concept in the photographic images that ATA published, finally removing photography clichés.

By 1993, Çika was a Reporter / Producer / Cameraman for “Reuters” in Albania.

Çika was an Academy of Arts graduate.

Çika has also worked in the past at the “Gramsh” Palace of Culture. Later on, he was a member of the group of painters who used to work for the interior decoration of the “Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg” National Museum in Kruja. Later, he was also a photography lecturer at the Academy of Arts.

The Albanian Telegraphic Agency expresses its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the late Leon Çika.

In 1982, he was honored with “Naim Frashëri” medal. /e.r/ /a.g/p.s./

The exhibition brings for the first time historical fragments from the period of communist paranoia in Albania.

Fighter planes, submarines, tanks, bunkers, tunnels and military installations, documented by Diebold, in the premises of the Premier’s Office, are the results of a historical period with certain not only political, but also socio-cultural contexts.

The areas of Pasha Liman, Porto Palermo, Gjadri, Pocesta, Kuçova, Qafë-Thana and the island of Sazan, which were and are strictly prohibited and dangerous for the public, present a material dimension of essential significance of objects, natural environments and to those created by man himself.

The “Remains of Paranoia” exhibition will remain open to the public until November 5, 2022./p.s./