Don McCullin at the National Media Museum
Don McCullin, born in 1935, is part of a lost generation of British social photographers whose work remains insufficiently published and understood. In this, he takes his place alongside the likes of Ray Moore, 15 years his senior, Tony Ray Jones, born in 1941, Graham Smith, born in 1947, or Chris Killip, born in 1946. None of them are unknown, but nor do they have a tenth of the recognition they deserve. Compared, for example, to that group loosely known as the French humanist photographers – such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau – the British group are barely acknowledged at all. All of them were consciously influenced by Bill Brandt, and McCullin was no different.
‘Don McCullin: In England’ National Media Museum, Bradford, UK until September 27. Tel: 0870 701 0200 www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
