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The human factor

For the past 22 years Don McCullin's home, and his refuge, has been a long stone house in an eastern corner of Somerset. The view is long, too: from the front of the house one looks over a lawn, a dip into a hollow carved by an invisible trout stream, then rising fields, bordered by an orchard that climbs to the horizon. He owns this view. As far as the eye can see, the land is his, and he glories in it. For more than four hours, as he talks of other things, he conducts a running commentary about the wildlife that passes through - the blue tits, the jays, the swallows; the foxes and badgers and deer - about his cherry tree, his crabapple, his dying cypress; and about the volatile, storm-threatening sky. And the light - "I call it cathedral lighting"; at one point it obliges with a dramatic streak of darkness that links the bright heavens to the Earth. The only sounds are birdsong, the occasional distant car changing gear, and, every hour or so, fighter jets from Brize Norton in Oxfordshire screaming overhead. Though they're not as bad, he says, as the C

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PATHETIC FALLACY
The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. It is a kind of personification that occurs in poetic descriptions, when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent. The British cultural critic John Ruskin coined the term in his book, Modern Painters (1843–60).

PHOTOJOURNALISM
Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that employs images in order to tell a news story. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (e.g. documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by complying with a rigid ethical framework which demands that the work is both honest and impartial whilst telling the story in strictly journalistic terms. Photojournalists create pictures that contribute to the news media.

RENAISSANCE (FLEMISH)
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Why does he take his photographs?
Don McCullin uses the photographic image to bring his audience almost unbearably close to the experience of people living under conditions that we can hardly imagine. His work mainly documents the second part of a century dominated by war, mass emigration, famine and political upheaval. Despite this condition being on a huge global scale, his photographs focus on the individual men, women and children who are affected.

How does he make his photographs?
McCullin learned his trade in the Royal Air Force in the 1950s, during which time he was deployed in the Suez, Kenya and Cyprus. As a photojournalist for national newspapers he was assigned to travel to and photographically document conflicts such as the Vietnam War, Northern Irish ‘Troubles’, the construction of the Berlin Wall and most recently the war in Aleppo, Syria. McCullin’s photographs are nearly always taken in black and white on a manual camera using film, which allows him to control the aperture, shutter speed and other camera settings. This allows for control over the brightness, f