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Don McCullin - Finsbury Park, London (1961) |
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DMC - Early morning, West Hartlepool (1963) |
Ses réflexions sur son propre travail, sur sa pratique, révèlent la profondeur et la complexité des sentiments qui ont pu tirailler ce témoin de la souffrance humaine - le torturer même - dans l'exercice de son art.
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 by 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 the photograph, I didn't starve that child". That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace.
Mais c'est lui aussi, qui raconte qu'un jour il a rencontré en Afrique une femme qui lui confie avoir voulu devenir médecin après avoir vu un de ses clichés; et il conclut cette anecdote en disant : "Voilà, c'est tout ce que je demande. Juste un médecin en Afrique."