I have made the documentary photos to the old people on a threshold of their life and death. I was documenting the hard life of the people, which doesn't exist today yet. This document is entitled 'A portrait of the old orava'.

I am interested in a problem how a man is even with his death, therefore I was documenting to a life in the old people's home, where the old people was getting, where I photographed in their surroundings and their lives became waiting for their death. This life-cycle has title 'A day longer than timelessness'.

When I explored the region Orava I met with a special woman, despite her high age -more then 90 years- radiated from her enormous life power. Long time she lived abroad, whose her life different from the others people. I photographed her as a nude and I wanted to express a symbol of the life, of the death, of the youth, of the old age. This photographic cycle is entitled 'A top model'.

At present time I dedicate to a problem of alcoholism. I intercept of alcoholics in their surrounding where they live. I want to emphasize destruction person by alcohol. This photographic-cycle has title 'Ways of alcohol'. I also photograph these people in the produced form. I don't want to show a human nudity as a sexuality, but men who are psychically and physically naked. They are on a total ground their life, although they are deeply believers. This photographic cycle has title 'A Christian's love'.

I'm persecuted for my creations in my country in Slovakia! You can read about this problem at http://www.presscard.com/jaro.html."

Jaro Sykora