From Beirut to Biafra: Don McCullin's war photographs go on show (original) (raw)
- Don McCullin stands in front of one of his photographs at Manchester's Imperial War MuseumPhotograph: Dave Thompson/PA
Hue, Vietnam, February 1968:
A US marine suffering severe shell shock waits to be evacuated from the battle zonePhotograph: Don McCullin
Hue, Vietnam, February 1968:
A US soldier hurls a grenade. Moments later he was shot through the hand by a north Vietnamese sniperPhotograph: Don McCullin
Biafra, 1969:
A starving albino boy, harassed and discriminated against for the colour of his skin, clutches an empty corned-beef tin at an orphanage Photograph: Don McCullin
Cyprus, 1964:
A grieving woman and her familyPhotograph: Don McCullin
Beirut, Lebanon, 1976:
Phalangists stand over the body of a Palestinian girl. (Don McCullin stayed to take this photograph despite being ordered to leave the area by the gunmen)Photograph: Don McCullin
- Don McCullin's damaged Nikon F camera, hit by a bullet from an AK-47 in CambodiaPhotograph: Richard Ash/Courtesy of Don McCullin
- An annotated fabric-covered US army-issue helmet, used by Don McCullin, from 1968Photograph: Richard Ash/Courtesy of Don McCullin
- Don McCullin's NUJ press card from 1975, the year he was barred from Vietnam after being classified as undesirable following his 1972 coverage of the South Vietnamese army retreatPhotograph: Courtesy of Don McCullin
- Don McCullin stands next to one of his images at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. The exhibition is the UK's largest-ever collection of McCullin's work, and includes his most iconic war images, contemporary landscapes and personal perspectives on more recent eventsPhotograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
