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




Matúš Zajac
was chosen as the winner of 8th Annual Journalist Award in the category 'best news photography' with his story HoPe, nominated by phosphotos.sk, .tyždeň.



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HOPE - DRAMA
Author captured the preparation and course of a drama based on motives of the destinies of 5 homeless people from the shelter.
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HOPE - TWO WORLDS
Author captured the unsettled life of people in nightshelter who themselves become a part of their own aid.
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HOPE - SOUL OF MAN
by laco
Author approached a man in the nightshelter as an isolated individuality.
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HOPE - INTIMATE SPACE
Author entered the current state of the existentially lost people in the shelter.
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FORMS OF FAITH
Why does someone believe? The Relationship between God and Man. Faith. Religion.
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TOWN IN THE RANGE
by laco
A weird atmosphere. Seediness, lethargy. People.
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SCATTERED MOSAIC OF HAITI
The time of 2 years after the earthquake reveals a mosaic that does not give me answers but only distracts me, fills me with chaos, disorientation and in the end disillusionment.
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ON THE BRINK
In my eyes, Kenya was always a country of great marathoners, beautiful nature and, lately a haven for hungry migrants from neighboring Somalia.
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OIL WORKERS
by laco
& oil platform
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MEDJUGORIJE
It is already 30 years what the Virgin Mary reputedly appeared in Medjugorje.
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CIRCUS
Circus. Pompous exhibition. But what is behind the scene?
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COINCIDENCIA OPPOSITORUM
by laco
DUTCH, NEDERLAND, HOLLAND... diversity of tulips, people, races.
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FOOD IS IN THE AIR
Who prepares the food you eat on a plane? Is it safe?
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SELF-DISCIPLINE
Self-discipline as a game, victory as a goal. There is training the mind and body. There is finding the balance of beauty.
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LAST GOODBYE
If only he could say something. And maybe he would just let the silence speaks. Perhaps he would like to know, why? And maybe he even knows it. Silence. Why?!
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GUCA MADNESS
by laco
The melody is vibrating in the space. Fluttering of the tones. The glow is rising. People. Dance. Food. Alcohol.
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FEAST
Feast as rhetoric of the role. Other place, other stage. Theatre performance, in which a man changes the role of ordinary running of the day.
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ESSAY ABOUT CATS
Intractable, peculiar, captivating love. Relationship between a cat and a human.
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GYPSIES among GYPSIES
Ardent desire of young Gypsy soul to change Gypsy tears into the life celebration.
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DEVOTION AS TESTIMONY
To be faithful also means to make sacrifices.
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JERUSALEM
City of wailing and meeting
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CELEBRATION
Two Worlds - Cannes & Paray Le Monial
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FARMERS
Sensitive insight into the mind and emotionality of farmers in the mountainous areas of the Venezuelan mountains in the surround of Guanare...
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GYPSIES
Photographs of gypsies from the settlements in Bystrany, Svinná and Dobrá Vôľa do not comment but leave to speak faces, gestures, people and the world in which they live.
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ROMANIA
Hard tonality of everyday life of the Slovak minority after the collapse of communism and after the closure of factories that were the source of their income and subsistence.
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FAITH
Faith is one of the deepest and the most intimate characteristics of human being since the beginning of its existence. You can not catch it, but by the arduous and attentive interest you can come near to it.
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WEST - PARIS, LONDON, ROME
It's a documentation of human destinies in the transformations of European metropolitan cities. Vivid fate of the people of Rome, London and Paris are recorded through the viewfinder.
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EAST - BEIJING, DILLI, HANOI
The capitals of countries whose feverish expansion creates a collision of the past with the future.
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REVELATION
It is waiting for the arrival of "king". Bleak clouds are intersected by the upright sword.
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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
by laco
Photographs of a person living with rheumatoid arthritis. There are days when your joints hurt less. At that time you go to work, practice your stiff joints, atrophic muscles.
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LONDON - BRIGHTON
by laco
England? By Jingo!, not there, there are the dog's muzzles, dry humour. I like the south, the sun, temperament, simple-hearted people.
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POPE VS. MAN
In the history of the Church many prominet men were sitting on the Peter´s seat. They often intervened in the history of humankind.
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CUBA
by laco
The island, fantastic people, street, slowly deteriorating house of wonderful temperament, humanity, warmth, rhythm.
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AWE
Life of the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia, the awe prior to the God.
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UGANDA
Africa.
Paradoxes are standing against each other, life and death.
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BERLIN - IMIGRANTS
Photographs of Berlin underground and crossings approach the several different cultures and also they are stripping the internal tensions that arise when they are touched.
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UNCOMMON COMMONNESS
Long-term experience and personal testimony about the life of future priests.
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CROSS
Symbol so often inflected and debated in our history.
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INDONESIA
An insight into the lives of people on the island of Flores.
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