Enri Canaj was born in Tirana, Albania, in 1980. He spent his early childhood there and moved with his family to Greece in 1991, immediately after the opening of the borders.He studied photography at the Leica Academy in Athens. In 2007 he took part in a British Council project on migration, attending a long workshop with Magnum photographer Nikos Economopoulos.
Since 2008, he has been a freelance photographer for major publications such as Time Lightbox,CNN Photo Blogs, Newsweek, Vice Magazine, MSNBC, NY magazine. A sample of his work has been exhibited at the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece in Athens, at the Bilgi Santral in Istanbul, the European Parliament in Brussels, the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, the Athens Photo Festival 2013, New Delhi Photo Festival 2014, his personal exhibition in State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, his personal exhibition "Shadow in Greece" in FotoArtFestival 2015 in Bielsko-Biała Poland.
