Knighthood for services to photography

[benjiboy]

I'm very pleased to announce that Don McCullin in the Queen's new year's honours list has been awarded a knighthood for services to photography, well done Sir Don for a lifetime of of great shots..

 

[Chris Livsey]

+1
One of the very few in that list that was actually welcome and so well deserved.

The most quotes from Sir Don on his honour I could find were here:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...ullin-inwardly-warmed-by-knighthood-1-8312341

"I have a great respect for life and people. It won't change me. I just feel inwardly warmed by it."

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

A really well deserved one.
And I didn't know about it until I saw this thread. BBC seems to have ignored this one, instead favouring the "famous" sport people.
Thanks for posting it Ben.

 

[Chris Livsey]

And I didn't know about it until I saw this thread. BBC seems to have ignored this one, instead favouring the "famous" sport people.

Only "local" news it seems:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-38466795

 

[R.Gould]

Well deserved knighthood

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

Only "local" news it seems:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-38466795

Thanks!

 

[benjiboy]

At 81 it's a long overdue reward for a lifetimes achievement while putting his life on the line on a daily basis while pursuing his craft in some of the worlds most dangerous war zones, that he is still doing (although he said he had retired several years ago) he was shooting in Iraq very recently In my book he's one of the greatest war photographers who ever lived.

 

[HiHoSilver]

Another luminary I'd know nothing about except for his mention here. The galleries I looked up certainly justify the praise.

 

[benjiboy]

Another luminary I'd know nothing about except for his mention here. The galleries I looked up certainly justify the praise.

I'm surprised that you haven't heard of him Hi Ho he has shot some of the most iconic war and conflict photographs all over the world for over fifty years in Vietnam, Cambodia, Somalia, Darfur, Northern Ireland and just about everywhere
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=don mccullin photos

 

[HiHoSilver]

There are many I've never known about, though its a shrinking number. Before posting last, I searched & found some galleries & was quickly tutored on what I was missing. Cliveh has been invaluable for introducing people I've not known about. I appreciate each time I learn of good work - whether they're famous or not. McCullin's work *is* fantastic.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

Another luminary I'd know nothing about except for his mention here. The galleries I looked up certainly justify the praise.

Anytime you see this one, you'll know who took it:

For your reference here is Sir Don at work:

Bonus point: have a guess what camera is that one?
It won't be this one:

Bonus point 2: have a guess what happened there.

BTW, do you know who this photographer is?

 

[drkhalsa]

Larry Burrows

 

[benjiboy]

Larry Burrows was one of the greats that didn't make it, he was on assignment for Life Magazine in Laos when the helicopter he was traveling in was shot down. Don McCullin lead a charmed life in all the countless wars he shot in over fifty years because there were more then sixty photo journalists killed in action in Vietnam and Cambodia alone in a twenty year period.
These war photographers are stupid brave, the majority of them start going into war zones with no military training, they don't know how to behave under fire, the things that soldiers learn in their battle training, use cover, keep their heads down, use dead ground, shoot and scoot etc they have to learn these skills on the job if they survive the initial experience

 

[Harry Stevens]

I was bought a Don McCullin book last year "England" by my daughter , massive heavy book I remember reading articles in the late 70s early 80s in photo mags about McCullin he made his own developer with his own recipe and said he like to print on the dark side and Tr-X was his film of choice.

Remember Larry Burrows and there is a good documantry out there about him, one of the best war photographers there ever was in my opinion.

If only Don was a pretty young thing that ran around a track fast and whose ultimate ambition was to be a media celebrity he would have been reconised much sooner.

 

[NJH]

Well deserved for a man that thoroughly deserves the praise.

I can understand why he likes Somerset as well, reading that BBC link one of the top stories is about a roundabout being replaced by traffic lights in Yeovil. A world apart from what he has experienced in his life as a war photographer.