A major retrospective exhibition of the work of war photographer Don McCullin (Tate Gallery, London until 6 May 2019) includes many of his most impactful photogaphs from the last 60 years, including conflicts in Vietnam, Northern Ireland and, more recently, Syria.
McCullin also documented human tragedy — the building of the Berlin Wall in 1964, a screaming widow in Cyprus, a Turkish Cypriot victim of civil war, a mother holding her wailing child during a devastating cholera epidemic in Bangladesh in 1971 (an image used on the front cover of the pioneering Sunday Times Magazine.
Don McCullin’s work was also the subject of a retrospective at the Imperial War Museum in 2012, reviewed at the time by Marina Vaizey in Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War (published in audiobook format).