Great war photographer 'contaminated by darkness'

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A Turkish woman mourns her husband, who was killed by Greek forces in Cyprus in 1964. British photographer Don McCullin is renowned for his work in war and conflict. His retrospective book is now available through Aperture.
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English soldiers charge Catholic youths in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1970.
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Christian gunmen in the foyer of a Holiday Inn battle Palestinians in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1976.
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Suspected Lumumbist freedom fighters are tormented before execution in Stanleyville, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1964.
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A Vietcong suspect is dragged from his bunker, in South Vietnam in 1965.
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Early morning at the Kumbh Mela religious festival in Allahabad, India, in 1989.
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