Don McCullin

Hamiltons Gallery has represented Sir Don McCullin internationally for thirty years. McCullin is arguably Great Britain’s most renowned photojournalist having documented many major conflicts of the 20th and 21st Century since the 1960s. His lifetime contribution to photojournalism continues today and lives on in the collection of many museums.

These rare and, in some cases, unseen vintage prints dating back to the 1950s were selected from Don McCullin's personal archive and were made shortly after the photographs were first taken on assignments around the world. Intimate and physically modest, the prints provide access to events witnessed and recorded by a photojournalist working on the frontline of multiple, international flashpoints from Vietnam to Cyprus. Largely produced for a photo editor or agency in a pre-digital age, these historic prints have been visibly put to work and bear the physical marks of their use. In these pictures McCullin shares the telling details of a human face or the gestures of a hand.  As he earns his subjects’ trust, he communicates their crisis. To comprehend each remarkable scene, the viewer is pulled in tight as if we are standing beside McCullin in proximity to an anxious soldier, a pointed gun or a grieving wife.