“It’s quite emotional to talk about” DonMcCullin AnotherMan
“I do not want people to walk past one of my pictures without realising. They’re meant to stop you and make you look and make you feel. My background played a major role in my feeling towards the tragedies that I saw, the injustices, the murders, the child starvation and poverty. I was an underprivileged working-class English boy. We had a kitchen table the old lady used to scrub to death, a weeny gas cooker... me and my brother, mother and father slept in the same room.
“War photographs like this are almost meaningless because they don’t show the negativity of war, they tend to glamorise courage, bravery and soldiery. All I was doing in this picture was to show the courage of this man who was black – and towards the end of the war in Vietnam it was only the black guys who were getting drafted, as if they were almost expendable.
“When I did this story about the homeless in England, I thought I came close to doing my best photographic work, and it was in my own country. It wasn’t a war as we know war, but it was another kind of war, a war of mentality, a war where men lost their dignity, lost their homes, lost their families. In those days they were called down-and-outs and they were often associated with drink, which wasn’t totally fair because this man here had been cast out of a mental institution.
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