Don McCullin: 90

14 Feb-12 Apr 2026

Overview

A special presentation in Don McCullin’s home county of Somerset to mark the photographer’s 90th year, coinciding with ‘Don McCullin. Broken Beauty’ at the Holburne Museum in Bath, UK, opening on 30 January 2026. The focused curation will span both the Bourgeois and Rhoades galleries, including works featured in McCullin’s 2019 Tate Britain exhibition alongside seminal images across his seven-decade career. McCullin’s only self-portrait, taken in 1963 at Crowthers Reclamation Yard, Isleworth, will be exhibited for the first time in the UK.

Sir Don McCullin CBE is widely regarded as one of the most important and celebrated photographers of the late 20th Century, renowned for his unflinching and deeply empathetic documentation of war, famine and human displacement worldwide.

Don McCullin is the recipient of the University of Oxford’s Bodley Medal: Life and Work award (2025), for his outstanding contribution to photography and journalism. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal at the London Design Festival (2022). In 2020, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Center of Photography in New York. He was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours, for his lifetime services to photography. He was named Master of Photography at the 2016 Photo London Fair. In 2006, he received the Cornell Capa Award for Lifetime Achievement at the International Center of Photography in New York. In 2003, he received the Royal Photographic Society’s Special 150th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS). In 1993, he was the first photojournalist to be honoured with a CBE, for his sustained and significant contribution to photojournalism.