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Mixed emotions

            This shot was taken during a bleak time in winter 1966 Budapest. Bleak weather wise as well as for me personally. It was my unintended gap year. 

I went to London in 1963 and for administrative reasons to do with my passport I returned to Hungary in the autumn of 1965 in the belief that I will return shortly to continue my studies.

Alas, the authorities had other ideas. It took me 18 months pulling strings and eventually a personal meeting with the then Minister of Culture to obtain a return exit visa.

The experience contributed to my decision never to return - to live there. The penalty for my defection was that my parents had their passports confiscated. It took my mother seven years of begging and finally after a meeting with Kadar's (the then party leader and prime minister) to be allowed to come and visit me.

My first visit back was in 1975 immediately after I received my British citizenship.

Taken on: January 1, 1966

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Exakta Varex

Budapest

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Sets appears in: • Monochrome • Analog more » • In or around Budapest • Nostalgia « less

Groups appears in: • Almost B&W (Read rules first) • Magyarok more » • Flickr B&W • * gallmese's b&w gallery * (no people) • Hungarian Photographers - Magyar Fotósok • Ysplix Black (B&W only photos) • The Best of Black & White ☯ « less

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