“I first came to Somerset in 1940. I was sent here as an evacuee during the Second World War. I was five when I arrived at Frome station wearing a gas mask, hand in hand with my three year old sister. We were selected for the same beautiful village, Norton St Philip, but we were separated. My sister went to the big house, while I went to a farm laborers home. We had come from a family living in poverty amid the violence of Finsbury Park. I’ve always held onto those childhood memories of streams snaking through hazel trees and cows standing in the grass looking lost. Somerset was yeoman farmer’s country with hedged fields that looked like quilted blankets and hedgerows covered in buttercups”
~ Don McCullin
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Don has documented more wars during his long and productive career than anyone I know of and thankfully for all of us who respect his dedication and passion he survived. You cannot be a witness to all this and escape unscathed. But he has found peace now in the English country side which still drives him to create images of primal beauty. His prowess in the dark room is unparalleled. No one deserves such peace at this stage of his life than him.
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