Sir Donald McCullin CBE (born 9 October 1935) is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and impoverished.

Don McCullin is one of our greatest living photographers. Few have enjoyed a career so long; none one of such variety and critical acclaim. For the past 50 years he has proved himself a photojournalist without equal, whether documenting the poverty of London’s East End, or the horrors of wars in Africa, Asia or the Middle East.

Feb 13, 2019 · “Why not be in the most important news story in the world if you can be there?” the British photographer Don McCullin said in a 2014 interview for BBC Culture. He was describing his decision ...

1 day ago · Don McCullin is not an easy man to reach. He has no email address, no mobile phone, and takes business calls via a landline for just one hour each morning. The 89-year-old photojournalist and his ...

A series of photographic essays that collects Don’s acclaimed chronicling of the English landscape; his beautifully constructed still lifes; travels through India, Africa and Indonesia; and his record of the Roman Empire’s ‘Southern Frontiers’, much of which is currently under threat of destruction by ISIS.

Sir Don McCullin, born in 1935, Finsbury Park, London, is recognised as one of the world’s greatest photographers. McCullin started his photographic career in, then poverty stricken, Finsbury Park with a twin reflex Rolleicord camera.

Jan 31, 2024 · Iconic war photographer Don McCullin has given a thought-provoking interview to Vanity Fair in which he wonders what the point of photography is in conflict zones. McCullin, from the U.K.,...

From his pictures of wars and famines from around the world to his social documentary work in Britain, this retrospective draws together work from all aspects of this British photographer’s remarkable career. “I operate not as a photographer but as a human being.”

May 6, 2019 · Sir Don McCullin was born in 1935 and grew up in a deprived area of north London. He got his first break when a newspaper published his photograph of friends who were in a local gang. From the 1960s he forged a career as probably the UK’s foremost war photographer, primarily working for the Sunday Times Magazine.

Donald 'Don' McCullin (London, UK, 1935) is one of history's great war photographers. His interest in photography was sparked during his national service (1953-1955), when he served as a photographic assistant in aerial reconnaissance in the Royal Air Force.