matúš
Matúš Zajac


was born in 1971 in Bratislava.

He has got the art education at FAMU in Prague and at the Academy of Fine Arts and design in Bratislava where he was fully interested in documentary photography in atelier of Ľubo Stacho. He finished studies in 2003. Consciously he links the document with visual elements. He works on long-term projects – Communities, Forms of faith, Immigrants, Confrontations – Asia and Portraits.

He cooperates with various publishing houses, magazines and advertisement agencies like TASR, AB40, Im Berlín, Linead Ombrai, Tchin Bumm, PolyGram, BMG, Dumont, Kalligram, Mark/BBDO etc.

Since 2003 he is a photographer of the National Council of Slovak Republic and since 2005 he works also for the magazine .týždeň.

He is a founding member of the group With straight legs and also of the photographic association PHOS. Since 2007 he lectures the analysis of documentary photography on workshops in the House of Photography in Bratislava, since 2009 he is a teacher of photojournalism at the Department of Journalism at the Catholic University in Ružomberok and since 2011 at the University Comenianus in Bratislava.

He was nominated in the category of The best journalistic photography for the year 2007, 2010 and 2011. In 2012 he won the journalistic price for the best photo story HoPe – Homeless People for the year 2011.

In global photojournalistic competition The Best of Photojournalism 2011 as a photographer of the magazine .týždeň he won the first and the third prize. In 2011 he published his first author book Forms of faith on which he works more than 20 years. In 2012 he won the second price on Czech press photo and the third one on Slovak press photo.

He exhibits his free work in Slovakia, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, USA, Poland, Egypt, Romania, etc. He works and lives in Bratislava.



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