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I'm lucky - I don't feel any pressure.
Don Mccullin / Photojournalist
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I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.
Don Mccullin / Photojournalist
Life I Am My Life
Tightrope
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I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.
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Photographer
Want
World
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There's always a threat surrounding the things you love
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Things You Love
Threat
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I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.
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Imagery
Photography
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I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.
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Jobs
Cameras
Photography
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Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.
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Persons
Photography
Truthful
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Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.
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Bears
Life Is
Seeing
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Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.
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Generous
Has Beens
Photography
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You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.
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Records
Wade
Water
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Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.
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I Am People Know
I Am People Proud
Drain
Marriages
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I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
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Passing
Art Form
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Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.
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Chauffeur
George
Orwell
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I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.
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Imagery
Photograph
Life Love World
Classical
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I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.
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Doctors
Saws
Want
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The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.
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Space
Fighting
Real
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I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.
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Absurd
Regret
Survived
Celebrated
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Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.
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Home
People
Suffering
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Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
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Art World
Caught
Photographer
Art World Me
Misunderstand
Sudden
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Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?
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Feelings
Looks
Photography
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Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
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Inspirational
Feelings
Photography
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I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'
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Atheist
Fall
Mind
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I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.
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Boss
Human Body
Images
Store
Thousands
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I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?
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Asking
Names
Photography
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There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.
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Pride
Terrible Thing
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I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.
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Digital
Lying
Trusted
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When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.
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Please
Scream
Shame
Meant
Particularly
Message
Portrait
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I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.
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Beaten
Constant
Uneducated
Park
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I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
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Photographer
Accidentally
Gangs
Photographed
Policeman
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I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.
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Dark
Peers
Sometimes
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I'm from England, and like every other great empire who stole bits of the world, there is a price to pay. And I was born in 1935. So, since I've been conscious of the world, I've either been in, or been on the periphery of, a war zone.
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Bits
Conscious
Periphery
Zone
War Great World
Empire
Stole
War Zone
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I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.
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Censorship
Form
Lost
Media
Narcissism
Rich
Rich People
Successful
Basically
Interested
Lost People Way
Rich People Way
Good-Looking
Recognize
Sportsmen
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I don't want to die for a few pictures. I want to live for every sunrise I can clap my eyes on; I want to see my family get older; I want to see the world try and get a bit more peaceful and understanding, which unfortunately I don't think I'll ever see.
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Eye
Thinking
Understanding
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I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.
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Bones
Broken
Crumbling
Empires
Glimpse
Life War Me
All My Life
Bad Thing
By The People
Endured
Entirely
Photographing
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Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
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Convincing
Enthusiastic
Fraternity
Important Things
Pride
Good Man Me
Belongs
Editor
Photographers
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I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.
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Emotion
Equipment
Tin
Basic
Brush
Camera
Shoe
Subject
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Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.
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Eye
Photography
Thinking
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
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Famine
Narrative
Peril
Photograph
Revolutions
Wars
Embracing
Executed
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Many people send me letters in England saying, 'I want to be a war photographer,' and I say, go out into the community that you live in. There's wars going on out there; you don't have to go halfway around the world on an airplane where there are bombs and shells. There are social wars that are worthwhile.
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Airplane
Bombs
Halfway
Letters
Photographer
Shells
Worthwhile
Wars
Send
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In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.
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Mean People
Poorest
Underprivileged
Always People See
Attempted
Wars
Drawn
Lean
People Stand Always
Palestinians
Trodden
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I think, the more of a student I am, the better it will be for my work because it means once you have too many accolades you don't try harder. I would never allow myself to think that I don't have to try harder. I like the idea of always learning, always trying to do better. The word "master" sits uneasy on my terms.
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Mean
Thinking
Trying
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Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled to a nice day in my life but beauty creeps close to narcissism, which I really dislike, particularly in human beings who were born with good looks, who cash in on it. It's a bit of a dodgy word for me. I look at it with caution. It can be a bit like walking into quicksand; it can get you in to all kinds of trouble.
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Kind
Narcissism
Nice
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I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child. That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace.
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Children
Flower
Tired
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