From the construction of the Berlin Wall through every major conflict of
his adult lifetime up to the Syrian Civil War, photographer Don McCullin
has left a trail of iconic images. Revised and updated after twenty-five
years, Unreasonable Behavior traces the life and career of one of the
top photojournalists of the twentieth century and beyond.
Born in London in 1935, McCullin worked as a photographer's assistant in
the RAF during the Suez Crisis. His early association with a North
London gang led to the first publication of his pictures. As an overseas
correspondent for the Sunday Times Magazine beginning in 1966,
McCullin soon became a new kind of hero, taking a generation of readers
beyond the insularity of post-war domestic life through the lens of his
Nikon camera. He captured the realities of war in Biafra, the Congo,
Vietnam, Cambodia, and the human tragedy of famine and cholera on the
Bangladesh border and later, the AIDs epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.
McCullin now spends his days in a Somerset village, where he photographs
the landscape and arranges still-lifes. Harrowing and poignant,
Unreasonable Behavior is an extraordinary account of a witness who
triumphed over the memories that could have destroyed him.
