“I operate not as a photographer but as a human being” DonMcCullin
is synonymous with the searing depictions of conflict captured by the lauded British photographer – in Vietnam and Cambodia, Biafra and Bangladesh, Northern Ireland, Beirut and beyond – over the course of his 60-year career.
It is no wonder then that McCullin, the first living image-maker to be honoured with a solo show at the Tate Britain, is frequently referred to as a “war photographer”. This is a term that he himself shuns, however, and which the newly opened retrospective seeks to contextualise.
“Of course the aestheticism of conflict is contentious, but that is something McCullin is extremely wary of. He has felt a lot of guilt about being a photographer of atrocities, also because he feels his images haven’t done enough to bring about change. So he has always employed what he describes as his ‘tools’ – which are his head, his eyes, his heart,” says Mehrez. “Once, when he was asked why he so often depicted hardship, ‘It’s because I know the feeling of the people I photograph.
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