I could finally say: Hi, Grandma
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Bedřich Mikl was born on 23 June 1962 in Mělník. During collectivization, his family lost large estates: forests, a farm, a dairy, a roof tile factory. When the occupation came in 1968, the family decided they no longer wanted to live in Czechoslovakia and emigrated to Australia. Only six years old, Bedřich Mikl found his new home in the other hemisphere, in faraway Sydney. When he changed his school for another one with more emigrants, he began to grow into a completely new culture. He studied photography and journalism and, following his father‘s example, became a photographer. His parents gradually worked their way up from blue-collar jobs to better positions, and their standard of living rose. His father was a photographer, his mother a manager in a pharmaceutical company. Bedřich Mikl experienced the revolution in 1989 with enthusiasm, as did most of his fellow countrymen. He came to Czechoslovakia on holiday and moved here permanently in 1994. He got married and put down new roots as an English teacher in schools. The stolen possessions were never returned to his family. In 2024, Bedřich Mikl was living in Bernartice, South Bohemia, with his Czech wife.
