Born in London, Don McCullin studied painting at the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts before entering the military. He served an assistant in aerial reconnaissance photography. In 1956, after returning to London, he published his first photo essay, on his own youth gang, in The Observer. He became a full-time photojournalist in 1961 and by 1964 had joined the staff of The Sunday Times, which sent him on assignments to Vietnam, Biafra, India, Northern Ireland, and other areas of political conflict. In 1967, McCullin became a member of Magnum. His work appeared in Time, LIFE, Der Spiegel, and other periodicals, as well as in the books The Destruction Business (1971), which was revised and expanded as Is Anyone Taking Notice? (1973), and Sleeping with Ghosts: A Life's Work in Photography (1994). McCullin remains best known for his graphic photographs of the Vietnam War. The emotional intensity of those images, often of physically repulsive and psychologically disturbing subjects, resonates within our collective historical memory.