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Synopsis
Don McCullin is renowned as a photographer for his stark and telling pictures, often of conflicts and catastrophes. Now in his seventies, he has turned to photographing landscapes and Roman ruins across the ancient empire. John McCarthy asks him about his life of travel, both in combat zones in the remoter parts of the world, and the apparent peace of scenes closer to home.
Journalist Monica Porter and her family left their native Hungary after the failed uprising against the Soviet powers in1956. In the many times she has returned there since she has witnessed the huge changes that have brought it to its current status as a democratic member of the EU. She joins travel writer Andrew Eames, who horse-trekked across Hungary, in telling John about the rich heritage of the country and the appeal of the contrast between bustling, modern Budapest and the more traditional rural areas.
Don McCullin
Don McCullin is a professional photographer, best known as a photographer of conflict and combat, in battle zones from Vietnam to the Falklands. Don McCullin has just published his latest book entitled Shaped by War and has a photographic exhibition of the same name at the Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester. Don has also captured on camera the still lives and landscapes in his home county of Somerset, as well as the tranquillity of the ancient ruins on his journeys across the Roman Empire published under the title Southern Frontiers.
Shaped By War
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
ISBN-10: 0224090267
ISBN-13: 978-0224090261
Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin
6 February to 13 June 2010 - Special Exhibitions Gallery, Imperial War Museum North
The Quays
Trafford Wharf Road
Trafford Park
Manchester
M17 1TZ
Tel: 0161 836 4000
Don McCullin will be speaking at the Travellers Tales Festival
"The annual festival of travel writing and photography" on Sunday 21 February at 4.45pm
The festival is on 19-21 February (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).
Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2AR
Tel: 020 7591 3000
Southern Frontiers: A Journey Across the Roman Empire
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
ISBN-10: 0224087088
ISBN-13: 978-0224087087
Monica Porter
Monica Porter was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her parents fled the country after the 1956 uprising against the Russians. Monica is a journalist and writes for many leading British newspapers. In 1981 she wrote her observations from behind the Iron Curtain in The Paper Bridge which has just been republished marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism.
The Paper Bridge: A Return to Budapest
Publisher: Quartet Books
ISBN-10: 0704371774
ISBN-13: 978-0704371774
Andrew Eames
Andrew Eames is an author, journalist and travel writer. While making a trip down the Danube he took time off from the river in Hungary to visit Budapest and to make a cross country journey by horse to Hungary’s Lake Balaton.
Blue River, Black Sea
Publisher: Black Swan
ISBN-10: 055277507X
ISBN-13: 978-0552775076
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