"People want to hear from the British photographer - he rejects both labels 'war photographer' and 'artist' - who survived a gun battle in El Salvador, was imprisoned by the Idi Amin dictatorship in Uganda, and used his camera as a shield under fire during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. His six-decade career has passed through, and recorded, the Bogside gassing in Northern Ireland; mass starvation during the Biafra war in Nigeria; and the civil devastation of Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War."
"Looking back over that life, the word "guilt" keeps cropping up - a condition McCullin has fought hard to escape. Guilt for surviving, and guilt that years spent in war-torn regions appear to have done nothing to slow the forces still tearing the world apart, or to shock audiences enough to truly see the damage inflicted and refuse its repetition."
Don McCullin has spent six decades photographing war, famine and civil devastation across the world, from El Salvador, Uganda and Vietnam to Northern Ireland, Biafra and Beirut. Those experiences have produced recurring feelings of survivor's guilt and frustration that powerful images have not stopped ongoing violence or sufficiently moved audiences. Disillusionment with changing editorial priorities ended an 18-year tenure at The Sunday Times after Rupert Murdoch's 1981 takeover, and he was subsequently not dispatched to cover major crises such as the Falklands War, the Ethiopian famine of 1983–85 and the escalating anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.
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