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Matúš Zajac

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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. Consciously he links the document with visual elements. The views to the inside of society, to the life of immigrants in Berlin, to the inner world of faith are his themes. For a longer time he creates the cycle of portraits of various personalities. Currently he is working on a project of urban confrontations in Asian cities.

He works for the .týždeň periodic, since 2003 he is a photographer of the National Council of Slovak Republic. He is a founding member of the group With straight legs, which is dealing specifically with the documentary photography. Since 2006 he lectures the analysis of documentary photography on workshops in the House of Photography in Bratislava, since 2009 he teaches photojournalism at the Department of Journalism at the Catholic University in Ružomberok.

He exhibits his free work in Slovakia, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic and Netherlands.

www.zajacphoto.com

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matus.zajac@phosphotos.com

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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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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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CIRCUS

Circus. Pompous exhibition. But what is behind the scene?

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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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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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JERUSALEM

City of wailing and meeting

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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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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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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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AWE

Life of the Greek-Catholic Church in Slovakia, the awe prior to the God.

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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.