The Landscape

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This countryside gave him refuge during World War II, when he and other children were evacuated there from London during the Blitz. He is still sharp in his 80s, and teases people with gallows humor, cracking jokes about his own death. After a career documenting conflict for over sixty years, iconic war photographer Don McCullin now focuses on documenting the landscape. The photographer has spoken many times over the years about the way in which his impoverished and often violent childhood influenced his work, pushing him to gather images of human suffering. The obvious assumption is that McCullin turned to landscape photography as an escape from the stresses and trauma of covering war.

Nice to see some early if naive shots from the 60s to the more up to date images, just a few new images.This is a beautifully produced photographic book containing sublime views of England shrouded in mist, snow, water or cowering beneath an overwhelming sky. After a career spanning sixty years, Sir Don McCullin, once a witness to conflict across the globe, has become one of the greatest landscape photographers of our time.

Beginning in the early 2000s, McCullin began documenting physical remains of the colossal Roman Empire in North African and Levantine landscapes, including the ancient site of Palmyra.McCullin’s landscapes take simple elements – trees overhanging water, a pond, a flooded field – and transform them, through his use of light and dark, into dramatic, clashing compositions on his characteristic monochrome prints. Although people are absent from his landscape photographs, they also raise uncomfortable questions about our future.