Ladislav Bielik was born on May 28, 1939, in Levice. In 1965, he landed a job at the sports magazine Štart and, a year later, became a photojournalist with a daily titled Smena. The photographs he took in the streets of Bratislava during the first days of intervention by the Warsaw Pact countries in August 1968 became the highlight of his photography career. He left Smena and returned to Štart in 1971 but after 1975, was forced to leave the editorial staff of the magazine as one of the victims of the Normalization period due to his photographs from the intervention...