Nicaragua, teen pregnancy – Martin Bandzak

Since his first visit of Nicaragua in 2007, Martin Bandzak continued to return several times to document a life of community Subtiava where adolescent pregnancy is hidden. Early marriage, lack of sex education, gender double standards and religious prohibition of contraception are the main reasons why these girls […]

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Subcultures – Matúš Zajac

Matúš Zajac (*1971) 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 […]

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Hidden world of periphery – Andrej Reiser

Andrej Reiser (*1949) is slovak photographer known more abroad than in his home country. He touches a sensitive subjects. He photographed the transsexual men working as prostitutes in Germany’s harbour city Hamburg in the late 1970s. The resulting images are in a way a documentary photographer’s dream, having […]

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Welcome to Lagos – Laco Maďar

Photographic essay by Laco Maďar was created between 2011 and 2016. It documents the daily lives of people of middle and lower class in sub-Saharan largest metropolis Lagos. The discovery of black gold in Nigeria has resulted in turning away from agriculture, fishing, textile industry and mining. People […]

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