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Dan McCullin

DanMcCullin is a photographer/journalist. He was born in Oct. 9th 1935, in Finsburg Park, London England. He is particaully noticed for his war photography and for images of urban strife. When his career started, which was in 1959, he specialized as examining the underside of society.

While McCullin was serving the National Service the RAF saw him posting some the Canal Zone where he worked as photographer's assistant. McCullin couldn't become as a photographer in the service because he failed to pass the written theory paper, and so he spent his service in the darkroom. By 1959, he published a image of a public gang in London and named it "The Observer".He also worked for Sunday Times Magazine between 1966 and 1984, there he was responsible as a overseas correspodent. In 1982, the british government refused to grant McCullin a press pass to cover the Falklands War. At the time McCullin thought it was because the govenment thought that his images were too disturbing but really it was because the Royal Navy have used up all the quota press passes. One of the most interesting things about McCullin is that in 1968, his Nikon Camera saved his life by stopping a bullit that was entended to go through his chest.

McCullin has many books that he has published such as The Palestinians(1980), Beirut A City Of Crisis (1983) and Don McCullin in Africa (2005) . He also has another book that came out just recently called " Shaped By Wars" that came out just last year.

McCullin has won a couple of awards during his past years such as the World Press Photo Award in 1964 for the couverage he did in the Cyprus. Then in the same year he won another award called Warsaw Gold Medal. By 1977, he was a Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, whcih placed him FRPS after his name. Lastly he was awarded the honorary doctorate from the university of Bradford and a honorary degree from the Open university.

In 1993 he was granted the CBE, he was the first photojournalist to recieve the honour. In 2006, he was awarded the Cornell Capa Award. Then Finally, in 2008 he was awrded the Honorary Doctorate of letters by the University of Gloucestershire in his recognition of his life time achievements.

Below here are a couple of McCullin's main images that you'll find, enjoy! If you would like to learn more about the images below just click here.