Don McCullin
Sir Donald McCullin CBE (born October 9, 1935 in London ) is a British photojournalist . He is best known for his war photography and images of urban riots . His career began in 1959 by photographing marginalized social groups . The unemployed, the oppressed and the impoverished can be seen in these photographs.
Life
McCullin did his military service in 1956 with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the Canal Zone during the Suez Crisis , where he worked as an assistant to the photographers. His desire to become a photographer with the RAF himself failed and instead had to do his service in the darkroom .
After his first assignments with the Observer and other newspapers, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times between 1966 and 1984, documenting primarily ecological and man-made disasters such as war , including in 1968 in Biafra , and epidemics . His extremely critical reporting on the Vietnam War and the Northern Ireland conflict is of particular importance as a historical source.
In 1968 his Nikon camera caught a bullet that had been shot at him.
In later years McCullin made photographs of landscapes and still lifes as well as commissioned portraits . He is the author of a number of books.
He currently lives in Somerset . He is married and has five children from this and previous marriages.
Awards
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In 1964 McCullin received the World Press Photo Award for his coverage of the war in Cyprus . In the same year he received the Warsaw gold medal. In 1977 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society , so he has the letters "FRPS" behind his name.
In 1993 he became the first photojournalist to be appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
In 2006 McCullin was honored with the Cornell Capa Award from the International Center of Photography .
In 1993 the University of Bradford awarded him an honorary doctorate and in 1994 the Open University ; In 2008 the University of Gloucestershire also awarded him an honorary doctorate.
In 2017 he was raised to the nobility as a Knight Bachelor .
Publications
- The Palestinians (with Jonathan Dimbleby ) (1980)
- Beirut: A City in Crisis (1983)
- Unreasonable Behavior: An Autobiography (1992), ISBN 978-0-679-40646-4
- Don McCullin in Africa (2005).
Lexical entry
- Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015 ISBN 978-3-8365-1107-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Don McCullin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Don McCullin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.glos.ac.uk/pressreleases/archive/november08/Pages/honorary.aspx
- ^ The London Gazette (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McCullin, Don |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McCullin, Donald (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British photojournalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |