“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
“Some stories must be told, not because they will delight and instruct, but because they happened ”
~ Michael Herr
“Dispatches”
“To make you hear, to make you feel, to make you see”
~ Joseph Conrad
Don has lived many lives and has survived them not without their deep and lasting repercussions. He has lived through all the extremes of human experience from nature’s beauty to its ugliness and capacity to cause suffering to others. Those of us who grew up in the shadow of what took place in Vietnam will never erase the memories of that era even if we were never there. This is without doubt I think the most important “war” photo ever taken. To my mind It is also the greatest “anti-war” photograph ever taken. I recently spent some wonderful and intense time with Don, at 89 years old he is still as articulate and passionate and engaged as anyone I have ever met in this field.
