I decided to go away
Pavel Šindelář was born to Helena and Bohumil Šindelář on April 21, 1946 in Prague, where he spent his entire childhood and adolescence. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Secondary School in Smíchov, Prague. Since the age of fifteen, he competed in cycling. At the end of 1967, he was shortlisted for the Olympics in Mexico. However, an injury prevented him from participating in the Olympics. During the Warsaw Pact invasion, Pavel took a set of pictures in the center of Prague. After August 1968, he decided to emigrate to Australia. In April 1969 he traveled to Vienna, from where he flew to Sydney after only two months. After acclimatization, he changed several jobs. He later began taking photographs and found employment in a photography studio. He returned to Prague for the first time after the Velvet Revolution in 1990. To this day (2021) he has lived in Melbourne, Australia.