The show Shaped by War, the largest ever UK exhibition about the life and work of Don McCullin who is 75 in October, is on at the Imperial War Museum North until 13 June, though I’ll probably wait to see it until it comes down to London next year ( 7 October 2011 – 30 January 2012 – and it’s in Bath 11 September – 21 November 2010.)
But for the moment the exhibition has spawned a number of videos and features about McCullin on line, at the exhibition site, the Guardian, Channel 4 and doubtless elsewhere. Good to see him getting the coverage, although a pity there isn’t rather more difference between them. Perhaps the best of the current crop is on the BBC, where they have an audio slide show from the Today programme, which lets you see the pictures while the photographer talks (elsewhere you can see some very annoying camera work on his pictures.)
You can see rather more about him from last year’s show at the National Media Museum, and Frank Horvat had an interesting talk with him back in 1987.