Don McCullin on his decision to retire from decades of war photography: I am nearly seventy-five years of age now. I still have some energy left. Not a lot. But I’m gonna spend the rest of my life trying to eradicate the things we’ve been talking about. I’m just going to photograph the landscape. The English landscape, to me, is my heaven, my form of heaven. The one thing that upsets me about it is, like all other things, there is always a threat surrounding the things you love. When I hear a chainsaw in the distance I think, a tree is dying. When I hear shooting, when there’s pheasant shooting, I think there’s going to be some blood somewhere. The sound of gunfire immediately switches on another part of my nervous system. So, I feel, as much as you try and run away from these things, someone always presses a button and says here’s a reminder of what you used to do. youtu.be/nNeVZjMVn0o
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 16:15:05 +0000
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