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- Birth nameDonald McCullin
- Don McCullin was born in 1935 in London, England, UK. He is a director, known for Unreasonable Behaviour, Steve (2025) and War Photographer (2001).
- Is an award-winning photographer and photo-journalist.
- Was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) in 1977.
- He was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1993 Queen's Honours List and Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire before being awarded the Companion of Honour in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours List for his services to photojournalism. .He is a photojournalist in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England.
- He grew up in a tenement in Finsbury Park, at that time an impoverished section of north London. After the death of his father, he left school at 14. He spent two years in national service with the Royal Air Force during the 1950s.
- He traveled to Berlin in 1961 to document the building of the concrete wall dividing the city, part of the Iron Curtain. His Berlin photos led to a contract with The Observer.
- You go to bring back an image that is going to change people's opinions. When you see hundreds of dying children in a war, you tend to take a side on it. If you can look at dying children and not have any feeling, then you shouldn't be there.
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