From the construction of the Berlin Wall through every conflict up to
the Falklands War, photographer Don McCullin has left a trail of iconic
images.
At the Sunday Times Magazine in the 1960s, McCullin's photography made
him a new kind of hero. The flow of stories every Sunday took a
generation of readers beyond the insularity of postwar Britain and into
the recesses of domestic deprivation: when in 1968, a year of political
turmoil, the Beatles wanted new pictures, they insisted on using
McCullin; when Francis Bacon, whose own career had emerged with
depiction of the ravages of the flesh, wanted a portrait, he turned to
McCullin.
McCullin now spends his days quietly in a Somerset village, where he
photographs the landscape and arranges still lifes - a far cry from the
world's conflict zones and the war-scarred North London of Holloway
Road, where his career began.
In October 2015 it will be 25 years since the first publication of his
autobiography, Unreasonable Behaviour - a harrowing memoir combining
his photojournalism with his lifework. The time is right to complete
McCullin's story.
