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The darkroom that sits in a barn behind McCullin’s house is where as much of the photographer’s energy goes as in the field. This new collection mixes recent with past work, showing how no one has ever been able to accuse McCullin of wielding a frivolous camera. Canon Professional Network | Español - Película con Don McCullinViñedo cerca del pueblo de Laurens, región de Languedoc-Roussillon, Francia. His ominous skies and ever-present water – ponds, rivers, saturated fields, the flooded Somerset Levels – hint at the destructive power of our climate, too.

Looking forward to the valley of the tombs which Isis have destroyed, Palmyra, Syria 2016Don McCullin is one of the most important war photographers of the late 20th century, best known for his broad reportage and critical social documentation. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the breaking news, eye-opening interviews, and incisive critical takes that drive the conversation forward.He is still sharp in his 80s, and teases people with gallows humor, cracking jokes about his own death. Nice to see some early if naive shots from the 60s to the more up to date images, just a few new images. Guardian After a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the great landscape photographers of our time. McCullin’s lens extends across the United Kingdom, documenting pensive rural scenes that include Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland; the River Cam, Cambridgeshire; Rannoch Moor and Glencoe, Scotland.

the book and photography are breathtaking, what makes it all so much more extraordinary is that this war photographer photographed most of these incredible landscapes near his home. After a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the great landscape photographers of our time. I’ve photographed dead people and I’ve photographed dying people, and people looking at me who are about to be murdered in alleyways. He has talked openly in the past about the guilt that comes with taking such photos – that you are ‘stealing’ people’s stories, that you are watching as they suffer or even die in front of you – and the manipulation involved in their selection and presentation to audiences. For 60 years, he has reported on battles and destruction, chronicled starvation and inner-city poverty, and traveled the world working for newspapers including the Observer and the Sunday Times Magazine.The 84-year-old British photographer, who is famed for his haunting images, is best known for his salient photographs of war and conflict, taken around the world. He has documented Roman ruins in North Africa and the Levant, including the recent deliberate destruction of the ancient site of Palmyra in Syria by ISIS.

Glencoe 1992 (platinum print)McCullin says that his platinums are an attempt to bring some balance to his work, and maybe to his memories. The two years he spent in Somerset, however, left him with an ‘idyllic’ memory that he kept with him over the years and which eventually, in the mid 1980s, drew him back. A far cry from the world’s conflict zones and the war-scarred north London of Holloway Road where his career began. The imagery of his home county, ravaged by storms, projects the associations of a battlefield or the views of one intimate with scenes of war.Somerset Levels, Glastonbury 1990s (platinum print)McCullin seeks salvation within the British countryside. The physical landscapes are not usually awesome in themselves but McCullin's treatment makes them inspiring subjects for us to enjoy. McCullin’s photos helped create the visual language of suffering that pervades media culture in our own century, from humanitarian appeals to modern-day refugee crises.