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Don McCullin Biography

Sir Donald McCullin, CBE, Hon FRPS (born 9 October 1935), is a British photojournalist, particularly recognized 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 the impoverished.

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Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

Photography, Has Beens, Generous, Damaged, Same

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this. '

Atheist, Circumstances, Fall, Mind, Professed

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Photography, Jobs, Cameras, Camera, Use, Job

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

Hunger, Records, Wade, Walk, Water

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

Became, Doctors, Met, Saw, Saws, Want

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Bear, Bears, Life, Life Is, See, Seeing

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

Case, Eye, Fishing, Photography, Thinking, Today

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

Photographer, Toughest, Want, World

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Handled, Persons, Photography, Truthful

I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child. That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace.

Children, Flower, Guilt, Starve, Suffering, Tired

I'm lucky - I don't feel any pressure.

Lucky, Pressure

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Photography, Feelings, Looks, Kind, Person

I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.

Dark, Peers, Sometimes, Intractable, Joylessness