Notes on McCullin
- - He feels responsible in some way for the things he stands by and photographs
- - When he was younger, he watched a public execution and vividly remembers one of the other photographers saying “that was great stuff did you get it”, he didn’t get the picture and is glad he didn’t, this implies that he wasn't as excited about capturing human suffering as his peers were.
- - He says at some point about photographing people in bad situations that “empathy is something you can’t fake”
- - The punctum of one of the images is a dog sitting next to some soldiers, it stood out to him as something out of place, as the dog was quite well groomed- At some point he explains that he feels dirty, like a voyeur. It's a source of deep shame, likening himself to a mercenary.- When he was younger he said on film that he “hates the thought of going a year without a war” and that these things are “a great adventure” to him. At his current age he never mentions that he ever felt this way, this is another possible source of shame for him. Even though he mentions beforehand that he “went to do what needs to be done”- McCullin says that he avoids “indulging” further contributing to the idea that he really does enjoy what he did, bringing into question his true nature and how he struggles with that.
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