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Life, Death and Everything in Between - Special Edition

Life, Death and Everything in Between - Special Edition

by Don McCullin

£3,500.00 GBP
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Life, Death and Everything in Between presents key photographs by Don McCullin. The 140 images in the book—some rarely published or previously unseen—were edited by McCullin through the process of revisiting his archives and reassessing photographs made from the late 1950s until last year. The book aims to be neither a retrospective nor definitive publication, but to present a selection of images valued by McCullin with the benefits of both hindsight and wisdom, encapsulating his prolific, varied and ongoing career. 

The publication of the book coincides with the exhibition Don McCullin in Rome – a Retrospective from 10 October – 28 January at Palazzo delle Esposizioni. 

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The publication of the book coincides with the exhibition Don McCullin in Rome – a Retrospective from 10 October – 28 January at Palazzo delle Esposizioni. 

The book opens with McCullin’s documentary photographs made in London in the 1950s, followed by reportage made in conflicts across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South-East Asia. More recent photographs in the book link the legacy of the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean and the latest, previously unpublished landscapes made near his home in Somerset. 

‘Known for the bold, frank and always emotionally engaging gaze with which he approached the most disparate subjects, McCullin produced some of the most recognisable images of poverty, hunger and war in the history of photography, as well as documenting the landscape—both in Britain and abroad—with the style and passion that distinguishes all his work.’ – Simon Baker

Published November 2023
280x360 mm portrait
224pp, 142 images
Hardback clothbound
ISBN 978-1-915423-25-2

Published October 2025 (Special Edition)
Edition of 12
Clothbound clamshell box with a hardback, clothbound signed book and a 16’’x20’’ silver gelatin print, titled and signed (only), printed by Don McCullin in his darkroom.
Print: “Neptune, London 1971”
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  • Don McCullin (b.1935) grew up in Finsbury Park, London. He began taking photographs during his military service and brought his camera back with him to the UK, beginning what would be a life-long commitment to photography. In 1961 McCullin travelled to Berlin just as the wall was going up , and his resulting photographs earned him a contract with The Observer. He went on to work for major British newspapers during some of the most violent conflicts of the late twentieth-century including Vietnam, Biafra, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Northern Ireland and more recently Iraq and Syria. Whenever he returned home, McCullin would turn his lens on still-life and landscape as a kind of therapy and solace. His landscapes have been the subject of solo exhibitions at international galleries, Hauser & Wirth and Hamiltons Gallery, and are held in the collection of Tate, London where McCullin enjoyed a major retrospective in 2019.