Don McCullin: In England closed on 27 September 2009. For details of our current exhibitions, take a look at our what’s on page.
This exhibition presented Don McCullin’s personal vision of England: raw, powerful, compassionate images in photographs taken over a 50-year career.
Gallery
Festival of Speed, Goodwood, Sussex, 2006
© Don McCullin
Steel Foundry, West Hartlepool
© Don McCullin
Bradford, early 1970s
© Don McCullin
Blackpool, early 1970s
© Don McCullinA passionate and personal view of England by one of our greatest living photographers, In England reflected on England from the 1950s to the present day. For half a decade McCullin recorded images of England, highlighting issues surrounding wealth, race, class and social justice. This was the first ever exhibition dedicated exclusively to this aspect of his work.
The images, taken mainly from two books—Homecoming (1979) and In England (2007)—are often imbued with their social or political context. Several exhibited photographs were taken during McCullin’s trips to Bradford and around his own home city, London, as well as Liverpool and the North East. The exhibition also included McCullin’s first ever published photograph, The Guv’nors.