SLOVAKIAN IDOLS

These women are giantesses. All of them seem to be to be huge somehow — their eyes bulging, their backs like freeways.

One is holding a stone cat that looks petrified to be trapped in the clutch of the leviathan behind it.

Jano Horak, a Slovakian photographer, has photographed them in a way that makes them appear imposing. “I’m engaged in provocative glamour,” he writes in his artist’s statement. Consider us provoked. — Will Doig

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For more photography from Jano Horak, please visit: http://www.horak.sk.

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