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| Don McCullin snippet |
| His work was considered so powerful and evocative that in 1982 the
British Government refused him a press pass to cover the Falklands War. |
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| Don McCullin |
| Don McCullin, FRPS CBE (born London 9 October 1935), is an internationally-regarded photojournalist, recognised for war photography
and urban strife. |
| His period of National Service saw him in the Canal Zone in the 1956 Suez Crisis, working as a photographer's assistant. His photojournalism
career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of British society, and his photographs have reported the unemployed,
downtrodden and the impoverished. |
| Between 1966 and 1984, he worked as an overseas correspondent for The Sunday Times Magazine, recording ecological catastrophes and human
disasters such as war-zones and victims of the African AIDS epidemic. His hard-hitting coverage of the Vietnam War and the Northern Ireland
conflict is specially regarded. |
| In later years, he turned to landscape and still-life works and taking commissioned portraits. |
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