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I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Bring Coming Give Hope Know More Nothing Proud Role Take Than Where

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I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Bad Beaten Constant Dyslexic Fight Grew Had Just Left Park Place Pretty School Uneducated Up Violence Where Which You

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I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Anything Dark Digital Experience Film Kind Lying Move Photography Process Really Room Still Thing Totally Trusted Want Whole You

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I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Always Art Art Form Communicating Form Information Much Passing Photography Thought Way

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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Around Art Because Being Difficult Embracing Even Executed Famine Find Form Front Get Head Life Me Most My Life Narrative Pain People Peril Photograph Photography Revolutions Spent Very Violence Wars

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I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Body Boss Brain Cut Death Feeling Full Got Human Human Body Images Know Like Pieces Some Store Terrible Thousands

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I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Bit Classical Fallen Imagery Last Life Like Love My Life Now Over Photograph Some World

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America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Always America Been Heart Me Never Outsider Taken

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Many people send me letters in England saying, 'I want to be a war photographer,' and I say, go out into the community that you live in. There's wars going on out there; you don't have to go halfway around the world on an airplane where there are bombs and shells. There are social wars that are worthwhile.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Airplane Around Bombs Community England Go Going Halfway Letters Live Many Me Out People Photographer Say Saying Send Shells Social Want War Wars Where World Worthwhile You

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I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

~Don Mccullin

Topics: Basically Celebrity Censorship Form Good-Looking Interested Lost Media More Must Narcissism Organizations People Put Recognize Rich Rich People Successful Think Way I Think

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Photographer

Born: October 9th, 1935

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