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Don McCullin: "Photojournalism has been poisoned by the art world"

2023-10-16T14:25:59.769Z

Highlights: Don McCullin: "Photojournalism has been poisoned by the art world". President of the jury of the 30th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Prize. At 88 years old, he takes a clear-eyed look at his career. The great witness of human tragedies, defender of an intense black and white that has the effect of a punch on you. He is exhibiting his iconic photos of the great torments of the world inBayeux. The veteran of the image, a relentless craftsman, with a proud "so British" look intact.


President of the jury of the 30th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Prize, the great British photographer is exhibiting the famous photographs of the conflicts he has covered. At 88 years old, he takes a clear-eyed look at his career.


Don McCullin has dedicated his life to photography. Not only that of wars, but also of landscapes, of ancient ruins, of social crises. The great witness of human tragedies, defender of an intense black and white that has the effect of a punch on you, is exhibiting his iconic photos of the great torments of the world in Bayeux. This weekend, he also chaired the jury for the 30th Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Prize for War Correspondents in the photo category, which awarded the Italian-British Siegfried Modola in the photo category for his work on the Burmese rebellion. A veteran of the image, a relentless craftsman, with a proud "so British" look intact, the blue-eyed lion with a humor tinged with melancholy gradually puts away his instruments, and tries to make peace with his inner shadows.

LE FIGARO. - One of the exhibitions in Bayeux pays tribute to the photographers and journalists who covered the Allied landings on 6 June 1944. You yourself are a child of this war...

Don MCCULLIN. - I would have...

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