Don McCullin : "Watching people die....

[Jase]

.... is not a great experience. It takes its toll, and in the end it becomes immensely unattractive."

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/interview/2291888/don-mccullin-i-could-have-gone-on-photographing-wars-all-my-life-but-what-kind-of-person-would-it-have-made-me

This is a repost on BJP, so it may have been linked from here before, but, I really couldn't be arsed with searching ;)

[Ingrid Budge]

My favourite Jase, thanks. Did you see him on Imagine last month? Amazing

[Alison Tomlin]

@ingrid2101 I saw that. It was very powerful

[Boo]

Watching people die is really not the nicest thing in the world. To talk to someone and to hear their last breath and feel the emptyness of a once full of life person/animal. I know how some of the shots he took must have impacted on him but thanks to these selfless people, the rest of the world gets to know the truth. It takes a special person to come face to face with death whilst working.

[Ingrid Budge]

@fueast Yes, it was - some of images just set me off, amazing photographer, humane above everything

[Lorraine]

Photography now for our near future, it will only accelerate, unfortunately