Sir Donald McCullin CBE is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised 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 impoverished. He was born on October 9th, 1935 and has now aged 86 years.
McCullin took a range of different kinds of images such as, landscape, rural, war photography, portraits, close ups and much more. He is most known for his war photography because of how powerful most his images are, but he also does have a big amount of good landscape photos.
“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
Don McCullin landscape photos:
Image analysis:
In this image you can see multiple people that seem to be running away from something unknown but it can be imagined they are escaping from war that is happening where they are. The image is displayed in black and white due to this photo being taken many years ago which I think makes the image look more effective and creates a dark tone. In the background you can see a lot of fog/smoke which was confirmed to be tear gas due to soldiers gassing the neighbourhood. McCullin seems to be attempting to catch emotion with this image by photographing people who seem to be running for their life which at the time all the people are going to have many emotions at the time such as, frightened, shocked and helpless. On the wall there are people that look like their wearing soldier uniform such as a helmet and some look to be holding a weapon. This means this image must’ve been taken during the World War in the 1940s which is when most of Dan’s images were photographed.