1. Sir Donald McCullin was born on 9 October 1935 and is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife.
12 Facts About Don McCullin
1. 2.
Don McCullin has mild dyslexia but displayed a talent for drawing at the secondary modern school he attended.
3.
Don McCullin won a scholarship to Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts but, following the death of his father, he left school at the age of 15, without qualifications, for a catering job on the railways.
4.
Don McCullin was then called up for National Service with the Royal Air Force in 1953.
5.
Don McCullin failed the written theory paper to become a photographer in the RAF and spent his service in the darkroom.
6.
Don McCullin was persuaded by his colleagues to take his photograph of The Guvnors, as the gang was known, to The Observer, which published it, setting him on his path as a photographer.
7.
Don McCullin took the photographs of Maryon Park in London used in Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup, In 1968 his Nikon F camera stopped a bullet intended for him.
8.
Don McCullin is the author of a number of books, including The Palestinians, Beirut: A City in Crisis and Don McCullin in Africa.
9.
Don McCullin's book, Shaped by War was published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North, Salford, England in 2010 and then at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and the Imperial War Museum, London.
10.
In 2012, a documentary film of his life, Don McCullin, directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris, was released.
11.
In later years, Don McCullin has turned to landscape, still-life works and commissioned portraits.
12.
In November 2015 McCullin was named Photo London Master of Photography for 2016.