Book description
'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come
back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in
a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man - like
myself, as a matter of fact - for good. He has been forfeit more times
than he can remember, he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this
way about death and risk, he seems to be implying quite consciously
that by testing his luck each time, he is testing his Maker's
indulgence' - John le Carre
'McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real
journalism is all about' - The Times
'From the opening...there is hardly a dull sentence: his prose
is so lively and uninhibited... An excellent book' - Sunday Telegraph
'Unsparing reminiscences that effectively combine the bittersweet
life of a world-class photojournalist with a generous selection of his
haunting lifework... A genuinely affecting memoir that reckons the
cost and loss involved in making one's way on the cutting edge of
conflict' - Kirkus Reviews
'If this was just a book of McCullin's war photographs it
would be valuable enough. But it is much more' - Sunday Correspondent
Don McCullin was born in London in 1935. He left school at fifteen
and joined the RAF. In 1964 he was sent to Cyprus on his first war
assignment for the
Observer
and the pictures he brought back won him the World Press Photo Prize and
the Warsaw Gold Medal. Since then he has worked all over the world and
on many battlegrounds, notably Vietnam, Biafra and the Lebanon. He has
twice been Photographer of the Year, and has won two gold awards and one
silver from the Designers and Art Directors Association.
