Sir Don McCullin- Looking For England

If you missed the programme on BBC4 the other night, it is available on IPlayer.
Well worth a watch.

John

Doing well for 83.

Amazing that he has and can still take such amazing photos with so few lenses. Probably never moved over to Pentax because he would have been overawed with the range available.

Anyone know the make of the ROLL film camera that he said he'd worn out four of ? I thought it was a Koni-Omega , but he wound the next frame on with a conventional wind on knob. The Koni had a push pull wind.
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It appears to be a Mamiya 'Universal'.

Could well be! ....... not surprised he wore four out. They did have very sharp lenses.

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Probably the fumes from the darkroom
Most of the time he was using a RB67

John

Do you know what it was that he had at the start, when he came out of the house

Looks like the Mamiya 'Universal'. It has extra viewfinders on it. Somehow it changed into an RB67 in his boot.

Seems to use Canon for digital even though he made his name with Nikon lenses..... Maybe the range wasn't big enough for him or he didn't like the way Nikon did video.

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Per this link, (video unavailable to me), it implies that Canon was proactive and approached him

https://fstoppers.com/editorial/photography-legend-don-mccullin-tries-digital-fi...

Thanks for the link. The video isn't available, but it looks like this is the same one.

Canon CPS | Don McCullin Feature - Seeking the Light

https://youtu.be/iueAUSnoru8

Crafty Canon. It does mention at the bottom of that video that he also used Olympus OM cameras, but I don't think that was for very long. Possibly freebies.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002dv0/don-mccullin-looking-for-england

An excellent watch, thoroughly enjoyed his style. I'd have missed it if you hadn't posted this. Thanks.

Thanks for this, a masterclass and such a nice chap. Thoroughly enjoyable.

An insightful programme that shows what drives him on to continue with photography. He mentioned that he will (maybe) give it up soon and a selfish part of me hopes that he continues.

Being from Bradford and growing up in West Leeds, his journey through through the North of England invoked memories of my time there in the 70s. Some of what he mentioned has parallels with what Harry Leslie Smith wrote about in his final book in 2017; something our politicians should educate themselves about in order to understand the conundrum of Brexit and what lead us to where we are now.

In an age of throw away soundbites, instant gratification and easy come, easy go experiences, it is a pleasure to listen to someone who seeks the humanity that is inherent within us all.