Don McCullin, the acclaimed frontline photojournalist speaks to Andrew Pulver, Alex Healey and Michael Tait at the Guardian online about the horrors of conflict, struggling with ‘this terrible name, war photographer’, and why shooting landscapes instead of battle zones has finally granted him a sense of peace.
He relays in the seven-minute video about how he wants to be known as a photographer, not simply a war photographer, how we don’t live in a black-and-white world though photographs in black-and-white tell the truth and the “darkness” inside of him. He’s more thrilled by his landscape photos than the war photos he has taken throughout the years.
A collection of McCullin’s photos are part of the exhibition, Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester until 13 June.