Don McCullin's masterpiece

In Vietnam, McCuning often takes close-ups of soldiers with standard lenses to focus on their panic and sadness, so as to remind ordinary people of the trauma caused by this war. Can not but arouse people's desire for peace. In Beirut, McCuning was locked in a dark room and threatened to cut his throat; In Uganda, he was tortured by guards under dictator Amin; In Phnom Penh, he was injured by mortar shrapnel; In El Salvador, he fell off the roof and almost died; When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, McCunin was one of the first journalists to go to the battlefield. Dressed as an Afghan, he walked more than 200 kilometers of rugged mountain roads. 1970, the war between separatists and government forces broke out in eastern Nigeria. Mccunning was shocked by the tragic sight of local children struggling to die of hunger. "In Phnom Penh, McConnell's Nikon camera once saved his life. When he was interviewed by a government patrol, he was suddenly ambushed by guerrillas in a wide rice field and was still worried about his camera when he died. He later recalled: "I fell to the ground and climbed about 200 feet to the edge of the rice field." "When I stood up and ran the last leg, it was like having a nightmare and my feet were heavy. I flashed forward, mortar shells blossomed around me, and dust was flying in the air. When I arrived at the camp, I was exhausted. I checked my photographic equipment and found a bullet mark on the Nikon camera. I thought,' Boy, you have made another achievement.

1980, mckunin left the newspaper he worked for 18 and became a freelance photojournalist, continuing to be active in various battlefields. Because McCuning almost never used cameras to show the so-called heroism and patriotism in the war, but concentrated on revealing the trauma and disaster caused by the war, when Britain sent troops to the Malvinas Islands in 1982, the British Ministry of Defence repeatedly refused his application to join the army press corps on the pretext that there was not enough cabin on board. He pointed out angrily that the British contingent had brought 3 million pieces of sugar. "Darkroom is not only a place to develop films and photos, but also a place for me to find myself and talk to myself. I respect the negative, and I believe that only in this way can I gain the respect of the surrounding natural forces. You would say, this is superstition. But I believe that as long as I don't pay attention, the photos will play a joke on me. Every film put into the camera has this danger. The photo is there, anyone can get it, but it doesn't belong to anyone. I respect it like the sea: because it is much bigger than me. "

"If I don't take pictures, I can only be a man without soul. The photo makes me agree that I am a person. "

"We can't ask too much of the goddess of photography, a good photo a year ── maybe only one for a lifetime, you know, moderate.

"Peaceful days are not easy. I once went through four or five wars a year in a corner of the earth. For me, a normal life is not taken for granted. "

2. "African boy covered with mosquitoes, ants and flies"

At first, he thought that the person you filmed was starving, so it was impossible for you to be a hero. What I can do is to give dignity to those who have suffered disasters as much as possible … because your job is to arouse the conscience of those who have the ability to help. However, several years later, in the face of the same war, he wrote: We are all victims of naive beliefs, thinking that we can stand confidently and honestly in any situation, but if you stand in front of dying people, you need more. If you can't help, you shouldn't be there.

1970, a war broke out between Nigerian separatists and government forces. Mccalin was shocked by the tragic sight of local children struggling to die of hunger. Perhaps the most touching part of his photographic works is the photo "Hungry Children", which embodies the suffering children. He said: "I can hardly swallow when I see the starving and dying children in the war and then fly back to England to have dinner with their families."

1980, McLean left the newspaper he worked for 18 and became a freelance photojournalist, continuing to be active in various battlefields.

4. Thin baby

1984, he went to El Salvador to cover the civil war, and his arm and two ribs were blown off. Since then, McCullin's career as a war correspondent seems to have come to an end. But he still has passion and adventurous spirit.

works

He is the author of Destroyed Occupation, Homecoming, Palestinians, Black Heart, Open Sky, Sleeping with Ghosts, India, don mccullin, don mccullin in Africa and Ding Bobai.

Note: The book Unreasonable Behavior is different-it is not a novel, but a true record.