{"id":17412,"date":"2026-07-28T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/?page_id=17412"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:45:22","slug":"confronted-by-eternity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/confronted-by-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronted by Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Confronted by Eternity (2020)<\/b><\/h1>

Daniel Pastir\u010d\u00e1k<\/b><\/p>

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In 2020, I photographed Daniel Pastir\u010d\u00e1k on the occasion of a book of conversations with him, prepared by Michal Ol\u00e1h for the Slovak weekly magazine .t\u00fd\u017ede\u0148<\/i>.<\/p>

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At first, I had imagined a more traditional portrait. I wanted to photograph him wearing his priest\u2019s robe \u2013 the symbol of his public identity that people naturally associate with him. However, when Daniel arrived at the studio, my perspective began to change. I realised that what mattered more was the person beneath the symbol \u2013 his physical presence, vulnerability and connection to the spiritual world.<\/p>

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I asked him if he would be willing to take off the robe. The resulting portrait is not built on external authority, but on the encounter of a person with himself. Every year, Daniel shaves his head. This simple personal ritual became a powerful image for me \u2013 a metaphor for removing the layers we create around ourselves and searching for the essence of being human.<\/p>

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The project was created in 2020 while preparing the book Confronted by Eternity<\/i>. I was not interested only in portraying a well-known priest, writer and thinker, but rather in capturing a quiet moment between the body, faith and the inner world of a human being.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Confronted by Eternity (2020) Daniel Pastir\u010d\u00e1k \u00a0 In 2020, I photographed Daniel Pastir\u010d\u00e1k on the occasion of a book of conversations with him, prepared by Michal Ol\u00e1h for the Slovak weekly magazine .t\u00fd\u017ede\u0148. \u00a0 At first, I had imagined a more traditional portrait. I wanted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17421,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17412","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17431,"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17412\/revisions\/17431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borisnemeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}