00:01Sir Don McCullin è una leggenda del fotogiornalismo di guerra ed è considerato uno dei più grandi fotografi viventi.
00:08Vero testimone della nostra epoca ha documentato guerre, povertà e sofferenze umane con rara compassione e dedizione.
00:16Negli ultimi 70 anni le sue fotografie hanno fatto la storia e lo hanno consacrato come un cronista sensibile del
00:22nostro tempo.
00:22Ha assistito ad attorcità inimmaginabili in tutto il mondo, è stato ferito lui stesso e ha subito la perdita di
00:29amici e colleghi.
00:52I feel photography may have chosen me. At the end of the day I published 20, 30 books and all
01:02of a sudden I felt that my life had some purpose, some meaning.
01:07McCullin ha iniziato la sua carriera all'Observer nel 1959 all'età di 23 anni.
01:13Dal 66 all'84 ha lavorato per il Sunday Times mentre nel 61 ha vinto il British Press Award.
01:20I wanted to also make myself feel a bit important that I went to these places, I took these pictures,
01:27they have a meaning, you know, they were tragic and they were, you know, but I did them with compassion
01:33and I wanted the people to receive them with that same compassion that they could try to understand what they
01:41were looking at was wrong.
01:42And so, in a way I had a slight evangelistic kind of attitude, but I realised in the end I
01:49was kind of making a fool of myself thinking I could change the world, I couldn't.
01:55I feel that all the effort I made into showing people that the tragedy and the lack of compassion for
02:02other human beings, humanity is in a really bad mess at the moment.
02:07And it doesn't look as if it's going to get any better, if not it's going to get worse I
02:13think.
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