A characteristic feature of Zuzana Pustaiová’s photography is humour, which seems to stand in opposition to the more rational or more philosophical artistic expression. The lightness of humour or mild absurdity are, however, a very efficient way of naming certain phenomena around us. Not only does this approach help to free us from the heaviness of troubled times, but at the same time, it can easily identify the paradoxes of our time. In the photographic series Each Country – Its Customs, the author creates situations in which she combines folklore motifs and traditional lifestyle with the contemporary lifestyle. We live in a time when individual nations are again turning back to their traditions and identities, so as to distance themselves from mass production, consumerism and the globalised world. In these photographs we can see figures dressed in traditional clothing and placed in an uncluttered landscape scene, unaffected by the visual sediments of today, but the representatives of today’s world attributes are, at a glance, the tiny details of the individual scenes. Equipment for; mobile telecommunications, solar power, yoga or diving brings into the photographs the mentioned humorous context, that is relatively seriously meant. The photographs are a kind of amusing dialogue based on two parallel worlds. At the same time, we could interpret the series itself as a „return to Romanticism“; not only through the situations in the images, and their inclination towards the world which is already long past, but also through the impossibility of achieving equilibrium between the past and the present and through the real non-existence of such a world.