Don McCullin
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Don McCullin, FRPS CBE (born London 9 October 1935), is an internationally-regarded photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife.
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[edit] Career
His period of National Service in the RAF saw him posted to the Canal Zone during the 1956 Suez Crisis, where he worked as a photographer's assistant. His photojournalism career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of British society, and his photographs have reported the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.
Between 1966 and 1984, he worked as an overseas correspondent for The Sunday Times Magazine, during which time he recorded the sites of ecological catastophes and human disasters such as war-zones and victims of the African AIDS epidemic. His hard-hitting coverage of the Vietnam War and the Northern Ireland conflict is specially regarded.
It is of note that his work was considered so powerful and evocative that in 1982 the British Government refused to grant him a press pass to cover the Falklands War.
In 1968, his Nikon camera stopped a bullet intended for him.
He is the author of a number of books, including The Palestinians (with Jonathan Dimbleby) (1980), Beirut: A City in Crisis (1983) and Don McCullin in Africa (2005).
[edit] Selected awards
He received the World Press Photo Award in 1964 for his coverage of the war in Cyprus. In the same year he was awarded the Warsaw Gold Medal. In 1977, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, placing the letters 'FRPS' after his name. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bradford in 1993 and an honorary degree by the Open University in 1994.
He was granted the CBE in 1993.
[edit] Family life
In later years, he turned to landscape and still-life works and taking commissioned portraits. Currently living in the county of Somerset, he is married and has five children from this and earlier marriages.
[edit] Selected works
- Jonathan Dimbleby & Don McCullin (1980). The Palestinians. Quartet Books. ISBN 0-7043-3322-8.
- (2002) Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography. Vintage. ISBN 0-09-943776-7.
- (2003) Don McCullin. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-07118-1.
- (2005) Don McCullin in Africa. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-07514-4.
