No other photographer in modern times has recorded war and its aftermath as widely and unsparingly as Don McCullin. After a childhood in London during the Blitz, and after the hardships of evacuation, McCullin feels his life has indeed been shaped by war.From the building of the Berlin Wall at the height of the Cold War to El Salvador and Kurdistan, McCullin has covered the major conflicts of the last fifty years, with the notable exception of the Falklands, for which he was denied...

Depuis soixante-cinq ans, Don McCullin photographie les effrois de notre monde. Il en capture l’actualité, les mutations, les violences mais aussi les paysages et les bouleversements sociétaux. En imposant un style très personnel, entre « obscurité et terreur », livrant des images noires, tragiques mais éloignées des effets faciles, il est considéré comme un des plus importants photographes de notre temps. McCullin établit sa réputation en photographiant au plus près les grands conflits de...

In 1979, Jonathan Dimbleby wrote a seminal book on the plight of the Palestinian people from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 onwards. It chronicled their struggles and their dreams of a homeland. Through extensive interviews, along with peerless intimate Photographs from Don Mccullin it gave a voice to the people: to the old men who were children when the Balfour Declaration prepared the way for the exodus from Palestine; to the children who were born in the diaspora and who we...