One of the reasons McCullin remembers his childhood years in Somerset with such fondness is that soon after he left, his mother ‘shipped me out again’, this time to Manchester. They are things that neither glossy magazines during the heyday of print journalism nor the accolades showered on him by the British establishment can quite contain. The morning I arrive at McCullin’s old limestone farmhouse, where he lives with his wife Catherine Fairweather, he has been up since dawn, looking out at the valley beyond his front windows to see if the sky will change.

I’ve cleared all the crap out of there and I’ve set the dishes up to go in there on Monday morning next week. In part, he thinks, it’s because his body is starting to break down – he is strong for his age but becoming frail nonetheless: he suffers from arthritis, the darkroom chemicals are starting to make his chest wheeze – but it’s also an after-effect of the major retrospective he staged at Tate Britain last year. Seeking to convey the mysterious and mystical quality of the light in this part of the world, this evocative series presents us simultaneously with overwhelming beauty and reminds us of the fragility of our natural environment. Photographer Don McCullin has spent the last six decades traveling to remote locations and witnessing harrowing scenes of conflict and destruction.Looking forward to the valley of the tombs which Isis have destroyed, Palmyra, Syria 2016Don McCullin is one of the most important war photographers of the late 20th century, best known for his broad reportage and critical social documentation. Oft sind es eher unspektakuläre, unscheinbare Motive (Landschaften in der Nähe des Wohnorts des Fotografen in der englischen Provinz), die durch die eingefangenen Lichtverhältnisse und die Wolkenformationen am Himmel atmosphärisch sehr dicht und reizvoll wirken. In the past, he has described the poverty he photographed in England as a ‘social war’, and to him the war is ongoing. McCullin is reluctant to place himself in the company of artists, partly because he never wants to feel that he’s ‘arrived’ – ‘The moment that happens, I know I’m finished’ – but also because of the nature of his material.

The Stillness of Life’ includes never-before-seen Arctic landscapes captured by McCullin in 2019 during a trip to Svalbard. Somerset Levels, Glastonbury 1990s (platinum print)McCullin seeks salvation within the British countryside. In the beginning, the manual labor was a sort of therapy, distracting him from thoughts of the horrors he had witnessed. Canon Professional Network | Español - Película con Don McCullinViñedo cerca del pueblo de Laurens, región de Languedoc-Roussillon, Francia.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. After a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the greatest landscape photographers of our time.