The Landscape

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Wherever they are shot, McCullin’s landscapes – handsomely reproduced on these pages – share an inky dark magnificence, and an unsettling sense of menace. Nobody knows how long it has been there; some dew ponds date back to prehistoric times, and it’s tempting to think that this one served the Bronze Age hill-fort that overlooks the site. In the beginning, the manual labor was a sort of therapy, distracting him from thoughts of the horrors he had witnessed.

The landscape once again offered him asylum, and he has now been living there for the past three decades. McCullin has been taking landscape photographs since the 1990s, capturing scenes from across the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia when not on assignment.After a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the great landscape photographers of our time. Looking forward to the valley of the tombs which Isis have destroyed, Palmyra, Syria 2016Don McCullin is one of the most important war photographers of the late 20th century, best known for his broad reportage and critical social documentation. These images are in contrast to poignant urban landscapes from McCullin’s early career in North London and visits to Northern England between the 1960s – 70s. Although people are absent from his landscape photographs, they also raise uncomfortable questions about our future.

I couldn’t be happier than when I am standing out on a cold winter morning waiting for the right light.

There’s a shadow that comes over my life when I think […] that I’ve earned my reputation out of other people’s downfall.