An evening with Don McCullin

[Geordi69]

I don't think this has been posted anywhere as yet.
There will be an evening talk by Don McCullin at the National Media Museum in Bradford on Friday 8th May.

Details can be found in this Linky

 

[Organic]

The guy is a legend. I wish I lived closer...

 

[Voyager]

The guy is a legend. I wish I lived closer...

Ditto.

 

[NorthernNikon]

<smug mode>I've got my tickets booked.</smug mode>

 

[Geordi69]

<smug mode>I've got my tickets booked.</smug mode>

Got mine as well.

We should get anybody from here that is going to meet in the Jacobs Well pub beforehand.

 

[TrevDR]

I really envy all you guys going. I have a few of his books and his work is fantastic. You lucky people.

 

[Jambo_84]

Just booked my ticket

 

[ditchdigger]

what an opportunity i wish i lived in the area

this guy is a inspiration

 

[NorthernNikon]

Got mine as well.

We should get anybody from here that is going to meet in the Jacobs Well pub beforehand.

I'll be coming up form Birmingham that day so will be going straight in I'm afraid.

 

[Moz]

I didnt check before to see if anyone from here was going, but I did go
Im to tired atm but will write up what I thought about him tomorrow.

 

[Geordi69]

It was a very entertaining night. I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[arclight]

It was a very entertaining night. I enjoyed it a lot.

Did he mention his Vietnam days when one of his Nikons saved him from an AK47 bullet?

 

[Geordi69]

Did he mention his Vietnam days when one of his Nikons saved him from an AK47 bullet?

No, but he went through his career in quite a bit of detail. He is quite a joker, it lightened the very sombre and disturbing things.

 

[arclight]

No, but he went through his career in quite a bit of detail. He is quite a joker, it lightened the very sombre and disturbing things.

Any pics I saw of him always showed a stern look on his face. I wondered if that was due to to the things he had seen in war situations.

 

[EdMoss]

Think he has (partly) got over his past and sacking from the Sunday Times.
I've been a big fan of McCullin all my career but sometimes I wish he would stop repackaging his archive.
I'd love to see some of his unpublished work, and more of his colour images.

 

[NorthernNikon]

I thought the evening was excellent. I was going to say thoroughly enjoyable, but I don't think that would be entirely appropriate given some of the more poignant stories. One disappointment was that they didn't project his shots as he talked about them. Given that we were in the cinema and we all had a superb view I felt that was a lost opportunity. Don came across very much as a tortured soul, and the one message which ran through it all was that it's not all about the photography.