Don McCullin au Garage

Par une belle journée ensoleillée de fin septembre, visiter La Gacilly et son festival photo en plein air. Découvrir au "garage", avec grand plaisir et beaucoup d'émotion, les photos géantes du photographe Don McCullin,  "La vie, la mort et ce qui reste"

I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.
(Don McCullin)

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.
(Don McCullin) 

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.
(Don McCullin)

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.
(Don McCullin)

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.
(Don McCullin)

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.
(Don McCullin)

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.
(Don McCullin)

I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child. That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace.
(Don McCullin) 

Merci d'avoir parcouru cette exposition avec moi.
Bonne semaine, n'oubliez pas le guide.

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