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PHOS project (Photography of Society) was initiated by docu- mentary photographers who are recording different situations of life for a long time.

The project is counterweight of contemporary banalisation of photography which eliminates humanism from the social as- pect of society.

Therefore PHOS stands for the Bresson´s "decisive mo- ment" because classic form of the document is the most viable way and concept how to express our views on social issues of the society.



Michal Fulier
Andrej Lojan
Laco Maďar
Matúš Zajac

Marián Paukov
Ivana Pástorová


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Matúš Zajac
will participate in the festival named Fotografia Europea 012, Reggio Emilia, Italy (11-13 may 2012) with his photo essay Forms of faith. His photos will be involved during the presentation of slovak documentary photography. The Director of the Central European House of photography Václav Macek picked up and prepared these cycles from the slovak documentary photographers. He will also present their at this festival.
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Photography of decisive art
  1. We reflect Adorno´s and Horkheimer´s statement that "between the interior and exterior is a gap which the subject must bridge over sub suo periculo (at one´s own risk). In the sea of an overwhelming usage of pseudocolourity we rehabilitate the intensity of black-and-white and the emotionality of color photography.
  2. It means: we want to see things in the spirit of Le Moment Décisif. With our work, we would like to honour Henri Cartier - Bresson and the other founders of the principle of decisive art.
  3. Even the tendency towards aesthetics of Magnum is a mere moment in the process for us - to do things Decisively. Decisively. Decisively.
  4. In particular we are concerned with the infinity of the land of human faces and the face of human lands - with their MAGMA.
  5. We are concerned with the human emotionality in a humane way.
  6. The basis of our work is a consistent and decisive sentiment. Percep- tion. Observation.
  7. In photography, everything is a result of conscious or unconscious decisions.
  8. We do not want to imprecate the darkness, but to light up the beam - in the direct photographic and artistic but also in the figural sense of meaning. We are not concerned with an attitude "against" something, but always in favour of something.
  9. Our clarity addresses and encourages clarity in humans.
  10. Incompleteness of the tenth point is our form of openness for coope- ration with other kinds of classical and non-classical art.