Well, naively, of course. When I first went to war, I went to war because I thought it was very exciting and adventurous, but then after a while, I discovered it was at the cost of terrible suffering and that. It wasn’t until I went to Biafra, and walked into those camps and saw dying children… then I got a shock, because I had children of my own; who lived comfortably in Hampstead, in London . So, I suddenly took on a totally different thought about what I was there for, the reasons I was going in the future; and then I became less and less enchanted by being with soldiers, and ducking and weaving as bullets went over my head, I started realising, this is not what we should be talking about; we should be talking about the innocent bystanders; who’re always the last people to be told when it’s coming.
Croqui De Luz - Don McCullin Interview (audio)
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