During an interview for the show "Rudina", photographer Fadil Berisha told a little of his family history and how in 1953 he ended up in the US, as a result of a difficult situation.

"My parents left in '53. I am from Tropoja. Everyone thinks I am Kosovar, in fact I am from both and I see them as one, but I was born in Kosovo. Babi at that time was given a task, to kill a Kosovar. He could not do that and says, 'Please do not tell me who saved you because I am being killed.' He told it and the father invites the government to go to Tirana, 'to give you the ranks', but he knew they would not do it. The cousins ??say, 'We are leaving for Tirana because we will have fun'. They go, he does not go. "They beat them, put them in prison," the photo shows, adding that his father escaped and went to Serbia, where he spent 8 months in prison.

They offer him a ticket to go to another place anywhere in the world or to stay there, without any facility from the state. Like many other immigrants of that time, he chose to go to the US.

"If this had not happened, I would still be in Tropoja with the sheep. Who would have thought a malok like that, fashion photographer? "Like me, like Emine Çunmulaj", Berisha confesses with humor.

He then confessed that he entered the path of art, even though he had his family against him ( read here ).

However, he managed to become a successful photographer and remembers one of the first moments he opened the doors. He reveals that he introduced himself to Halle Berry because he worked with her makeup artist and the actress expressed a desire to be photographed by him.

“Pas disa javësh vjen Halle në Nju-Jork dhe kishte një fushatë për Revlon, më thanë “do të të lërë 4 orë, bëj ç’të duash”. U gëzova, thashë të përgatitem, të shoh punën e saj, çfarë këndi e kanë fotografuar të tjerët, ta nxjerr në një kënd tjetër. Këto gjëra janë të shkruara. Asaj flokët e shkurtra i shkojnë shumë, më shumë se të gjatat, ka një fytyrë të vogël, të imët, por qafën e gjatë… dhe unë thashë do ta shkrep nga një kënd tjetër, nga poshtë, t’ia nxjerr qafën më të gjatë dhe fytyrën aq të bukur… Sikur ta ndieja që do fitonte një Oscar,” -u shpreh ai.

After a few weeks, the actress's agent calls Berisha and asks him to send all the photos as Berry wanted to see them and select them. She liked 16 of them, but he asked her not to show them yet as it was not the moment. At the moment when the actress was awarded the Oscar, she was shooting for the next film and there was still no photo of her, so all the magazines turned to the Albanian photographer. From there, the rest was history.