The definitive retrospective of one of Britains leading photographers & arguably the greatest recorder of conflict in the latter 20th century. The book opens & ends in the Somerset landscape that surrounds Mc Cullins home but the whole sequence of photographs encompasses a ravaged northern England war in Cyprus Biafra Vietnam Cambodia & Beirut as well as riots in Derry & famine in Bangladesh. The climax of the book is among the cannibals & tribespeople deep in the jungles of Irian Jaya where the photographer focuses on humanity in an almost Stone Age condition. The introduction by Harold Evans is drawn from his long experience of working with Mccullin. The novelist & essayist Susan Sontag has contributed an essay on Mc Cullin & the role of witness to conflict.