war photographer

Shaped by War: Photographs

on McCullin's most celebrated image is his portrayal of a dazed American dogface, entitled Stressed US Marine, Hue, Vietnam. It was taken during the battle for the megacity of Hue in 1968 and, in its stillness and quiet intensity, says as important about the goods of war photographer on the individual psyche as numerous of McCullin's more graphic delineations of conflict and holocaust. The eyes that gawk out beneath the grimy helmet aren't gaping at the camera lens, but beyond it, into nowhere.

Unexpectedly, when I ask McCullin about the snap, which features in this retrospective of his reportage in Manchester, he snoots." It kind of gets on my jitters now," he says," because it has appeared far and wide. It's like the Eddie Adams shot of the prosecution of a Vietnamese internee."

Now 64, and married for the third time, McCullin lives and works in pastoral Somerset. These days, he concentrates on war photographer and has just completed what he says will be his last book, the grand Southern Frontiers A Journey Across the Roman Empire." It brings me a kind of peace," he says," until I hear the original nimrods shooting. Gunfire is a prelude to war for me. I feel I am back there on some godforsaken road passing dying dogfaces lying in acequias

It was Sawada who mugged McCullin as he lay wounded in a field sanitarium in Phnom Penh in 1970, having been hit by fractions of a mortar shell. McCullin says he was most hysterical , however, when he was captured by Idi Amin's dogfaces in Uganda and held internee for four days." They dug recesses outside our cell. The sense that commodity awful was going to be was constant and nearly inviting."

McCullin famously prints his own photos. Has he ever developed a print and been shocked by the result." The albino boy," he says, without vacillation, pertaining to his heartbreaking image of a starving Biafran child clinging an empty corned beef drum." The day I came across that boy was a killer day for me. There were 800 dying children in that schoolhouse. The boy is near death. He's trying to support himself. And to see this kind of pathetic shooter appear with a Nikon around his neck"

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