 His talent and great technique was quickly recognized by the Albanian art circles, and caught the eye of the dictator Enver Hoxha who choose Zef Shoshi as his personal painter.A lot of government offices carried Shoshi’s best works on their walls for a long time until the communists left and his work was sold illegally across Europe without him ever knowing or profiting from it.During the 1970s, his painting adopted a more modern style, which almost got him in trouble with the regime at the time.