Don McCullin RISQUES ET PÉRILS

"Self-taught in photography as in his viewing of the world, McCullin is a man with a clear and innocent eye, incredulous in the face of barbarity.

Through his images, published for twenty years in the Sunday Times Magazine, he tried to disturb the Sunday comforts of his compatriots by showing them the injustices done to man by man. Berlin cut off by the Wall, the Congo battered, Vietnam bombed and tortured, Biafra starving, Bangladesh ravaged, Cambodia murdered, El Salvador in revolt, Ireland in turmoil - his photographs bear witness to the cruelty of this world.

As Robert Pledge points out, Don McCullin's gaze ‘remains a moving mirror of that of the subjects he photographs, with whom he identifies’."

(From the publisher, translated from French)