Don McCullin

Don McCullin worked for The Sunday Times from 1966 to 1983, at a time when, under the editorship of Harold Evans, the newspaper was widely recognized as being on the cutting-edge of world journalism. For the first time McCullin speaks about his experiences with a trusted friend behind the camera.

A revealing portrait of this most self-effacing but great portrait photographer emerges through conversation, anecdote and candid reflection.  In the almost six decades that Jane Bown (b 1925) worked for the Observer newspaper, she became renowned for insightful, highly individualistic portraits of the famous.  Some of these portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre - Samuel Beckett, Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles, Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, etc. Bown´s great mantra is, „photographers should neither be seen nor heardˮ. Diminutive in stature and with an all-important ability to blend into the background, Bown was the antithesis of the Fleet Street, macho photojournalist.  This feature documentary is a beautiful portrait of both Jane Bown, her determination to succeed in an almost exclusively male world, and her process of working as a photographer. It includes interviews with Rankin, Nobby Clark and Don McCullin and her many iconic photographs of the great and the good (and a few bad) of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.