Don McCullin is
one of Britain's
greatest photographers and a well-known name world-wide. Like James Nachtwey he
almost seems to have been protected by a higher power while continuously
putting his life on the line in order to witness the horrors of war, famine and
disaster.
His photographs
have witnessed the building of the Berlin Wall, the Six-Day War in Jerusalem, the wars in Cyprus
and Vietnam, the genocide of
the Brazilian Indians, refugees in Bangladesh,
the civil war in Beirut, and the victims of AIDS
in Africa. During his 14 years of 'adventures'
he has been hit by shrapnel four times, blasted in a mortar barrage, and caught
in a hail of bullets from the Khmer Rouge from which he was lucky to live
thanks to his Nikon camera which blocked a bullet.
"Photography
for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at,
then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your
pictures." Don McCullin
