“Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling.
If you can't feel what you're looking at,
then you're never going to get others to
feel anything when they look at your pictures”.

 Don McCullin, "Sleeping With Ghosts:
A Life's Work in Photography"

Don McCullin is recognised as one of the greatest war photographers , and throughout the 1960's and 1970's he covered events of global importance for the Sunday Times Magazine including the Vietnam war. His first published story in 1958 concerned his own street gang in North London, and his subsequent images in Britain have looked at the unemployed and the destitute. Abroad, McCullin has covered ecological disasters and the war-torn regions of the world, documenting events normally hidden from view. His work proved so painful and memorable that in 1982 he was forbidden to cover the Falklands war by the British government of the time.

Don McCullin’s photographs provide some of the iconic images of our time. His pictures of war and conflict, refugees fleeing and civilians in pain, have created searing impressions that are unforgettable in their power and humanity.

For more than four decades McCullin has documented the human cost of conflict, from Northern Ireland to Vietnam, Cyprus, the Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia and Iraq . “Seeing what others cannot bear to see it what my life as a war reporter is about he said in his autobiography ‘Unreasonable Behaviour.’

In 2001, he travelled to Africa with Christian Aid to investigate the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Cold Heaven: Don McCullin on AIDS in Africa is the result of his visit – a powerful portrait of communities and people living through the humanitarian disaster haunting the new millennium