The postwoman with a Flexaret
Františka Čoková was born in 1936 in a small village near Mnichovo Hradiště. Her father was a butcher and ran a pub together with her mother. She trained as an auto-mechanic at Škoda Mladá Boleslav. She worked for the post office where she delivered packages. During the 1968 occupation, she had the possibility to photograph the dramatic events taking place all over Prague. Her photography was discovered many years later at an exhibition at the National Museum. On 21 August she witnessed the shots fired near the building of the Radio and the Museum. She also took photographs during the revolutionary days of November 1989. She is the mother of Vilém Čok, a well-known rock musician.