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When I look at some of his drawings, people are looking up for salvation, just before they’re being shot. It’s a journey McCullin first made at the age of five, when he was evacuated in 1940 from his home in Finsbury Park, north London.Wherever they are shot, McCullin’s landscapes – handsomely reproduced on these pages – share an inky dark magnificence, and an unsettling sense of menace.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. And although the majority of the images featured are from Great Britain, it also includes stunning scenes from Syria, Iraq, France, Morocco, Sudan, India and Indonesia.Though the woods and stream close to his house in Somerset have offered some respite, he has not sought out the quiet corners of rural England. We were surrounded by McCullin’s signature black-and-white images, none of which depict starving children or shell-shocked marines.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Because the light is pouring in here and it’s as if I’m being invited to go out there and pick up on it. 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. This summer, McCullin’s hugely successful retrospective, which opened at Tate Britain last year, travels to Tate Liverpool.