Don McCullin, who turns 91 in Autumn 2026, presents —in what the photographer has indicated will be his ‘last ever book’—a retrospective in book form of his time in Vietnam; captured over three sections or ‘campaigns’ of the individual trips he made to the region throughout the war.
'Vietnam' is the result of a deep archival excavation, featuring approximately 100 black and white images and more than 20 colour photographs, nearly half of which have never been previously published in print or exhibited. Well known images of Marines sit alongside shots of domestic life caught amidst the battlefield; dead or dying men and women smoked out of bunkers, and piles of human and mechanical detritus amidst the fog of war.
Don McCullin will also be speaking about the book and his work at Big Brue on Sunday 20 September in Somerset. McCullin reflects on his extraordinary career as some of his most powerful images are projected alongside live music performed by the Cavatina Orchestra. Moving from the darkness of the frontline towards landscape, tenderness and redemption, words, photographs and music combine to reveal not only war’s brutality, but the unexpected moments of beauty and humanity found within it. Chaired by Helena Newman of Sotheby’s.
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