"I took the slow train to London recently, a train which I don't normally catch, and it stopped at Frome station, the sight of which released a sudden flood of memories taking me back some 85 years. It is 1940 and I'm a confused child of five, stepping out on to Frome's platform holding a gas mask in one hand, and the hand of my little sister in the other."
"McCullin has been creating still life arrangements in his garden shed at home in Somerset since the early 1980s. Each still life has been lyrically constructed with the natural cut flowers (lilies, foxgloves, gladioli), fruit or fungi often presented alongside beloved mementos of his travels; a bronze dragon from the orient, a junk shop vase, a Hindu goddess In autumn, I liked to glean the hedgerows and scour the fields for berries, mushrooms and wild flowers which I'd arrange, altar-like, arou"
Evacuation to Somerset during WWII created lifelong attachment to its countryside. Decades later the photographer bought an 18th-century cottage by a stream, finding belonging. The Somerset corner provided restoration of sanity and balance amid a career covering wars. Landscapes captured across his career include industrial north, India, Africa, and nearby scenes, often shot with metallic light, low skies, and denuded trees, evoking foreboding and desolation. Since the 1980s the photographer has constructed lyrical still lifes in a garden shed using cut flowers, fruit, fungi, and travel mementos like a bronze dragon, vase, and Hindu goddess.
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