You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them. Don McCullin More Quotes by Don McCullin More Quotes From Don McCullin It was a crushing defeat for me not to go the Falklands War, in effect, I had more battleground experience than any soldier that went there. Don McCullin top-news The press had had pretty free rein in the Vietnam War ... to run around where we want, go anywhere, see anything, but once the war was over, (there was a) feeling that it was the media that helped to lose (America) the war. We didn't. Don McCullin top-news I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information. Don McCullin thought information way art When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message. Don McCullin portrait talk you shame There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures. Don McCullin looking you hope war Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us. Don McCullin me happy people art I grew up as a boy with aggression. Don McCullin boy up aggression grew I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen. Don McCullin good-looking rich people way Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur. Don McCullin camera street you travel I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of. Don McCullin nothing know proud hope Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of. Don McCullin i-am down proud people I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do. Don McCullin i-love imagery photography love I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence. Don McCullin fight you violence school I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really. Don McCullin you digital experience dark I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography. Don McCullin my-life me life art I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body. Don McCullin feeling boss brain death In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them. Don McCullin stand see india people I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes. Don McCullin my-life love life world America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider. Don McCullin never me heart america Many people send me letters in England saying, 'I want to be a war photographer,' and I say, go out into the community that you live in. There's wars going on out there; you don't have to go halfway around the world on an airplane where there are bombs and shells. There are social wars that are worthwhile. Don McCullin me you war people
