Don McCullin on Radio 4

Ed Sutton said:
This Cultural Life - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tbzn
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We listened to this, including my sister, who is on holiday with us at the moment. An interesting insight into the man behind the pictures. Good preparation for when we take my sister to the exhibition, which is still on until the 12th.

I would have missed this entirely if wasn't for your post, so much appreciated.
 
myotis said:
We listened to this, including my sister, who is on holiday with us at the moment. An interesting insight into the man behind the pictures. Good preparation for when we take my sister to the exhibition, which is still on until the 12th.

I would have missed this entirely if wasn't for your post, so much appreciated.
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Agreed!

Thanks Ed.
 
Enough to bring tears to the eye, & as ever with McCullin it's the straightforward honesty of the man, allied with the bravery & passion of the photos.

I lost the following vid & have just re-found the link (interview with him at Arles 2016):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5uN5CgRDBs


And let's not forget his late contemporary Philip Jones Griffiths, a trained pharmacist who also went to Vietnam as a photographer & took an interest in the after-effects of Agent Orange ...

We are a horrific race in many ways - but thankfully we can also be beautiful. But there's no easy path.
 
droj said:
Enough to bring tears to the eye, & as ever with McCullin it's the straightforward honesty of the man, allied with the bravery & passion of the photos.

I lost the following vid & have just re-found the link (interview with him at Arles 2016):
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5uN5CgRDBs


And let's not forget his late contemporary Philip Jones Griffiths, a trained pharmacist who also went to Vietnam as a photographer & took an interest in the after-effects of Agent Orange ...

We are a horrific race in many ways - but thankfully we can also be beautiful. But there's no easy path.
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A great sense of honesty and integrity comes across in his interviews. It's a pity that from about halfway through he is drowned out by the interpreter translating his words into French :-(
 
myotis said:
It's a pity that from about halfway through he is drowned out by the interpreter
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The intrusion runs from about the 25 minute mark to about 33 mins out of the whole 42.

Whereas McCullin asserts that his (& by implication others') war and atrocity work 'made no difference whatsoever', perhaps that wasn't its point - it remains that he (& others) bore witness. I feel that's a valid enough function in its own right.
 
droj said:
The intrusion runs from about the 25 minute mark to about 33 mins out of the whole 42.
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I jumped in at various points beyond that 25 minute point, in the hope it would get fixed. I thought I had checked until the end so I need to have another look.
droj said:
Whereas McCullin asserts that his (& by implication others') war and atrocity work 'made no difference whatsoever', perhaps that wasn't its point - it remains that he (& others) bore witness. I feel that's a valid enough function in its own right.
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I agree, and it's also difficult to know how much of a difference it has made.
 
I've mentioned in another thread that I only discovered the existence of the Hauser&Wirth art gallery ten years ago or so, a week after Don McCullin had given a talk there. The gallery is a few miles from where I live, and for those who missed my earlier thread, is currently hosting a large Don McCullin exhibition (until 12th April 2026)

It turns out that this was an interview, rather than a talk, and it's on Youtube (1hr and 6 minutes)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lavZH-KoFog


This has a slightly different feel to other interviews, as it's with Mariella Frostrup, who turns out to be McCullin's neighbour and friend. McCullin has some occasional lighthearted moments, including poking fun at Frostrup, that I don't think I've seen in other interviews.
 
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