Don McCullin: Journeys across Roman Asia Minor

Don McCullin's 'Photography for me is not looking, its feeling. It is an album of the most recent photographs taken by Don McCullin, informed by a life full of hard-won experience. It explores the mountains, valleys, and coast of western Turkey, hunting out the most poignant and powerful ruins of the Roman Empire. It is a meditation on landscape, the effects of light on ancient stone, the way clouds animate the past, and past conflict.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2023
Publisher: Caique Publishing Ltd

‘Photography for me is not looking,it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor is driven by an eye for beauty and an ear for history. It is an album of the most recent photographs taken by Don McCullin, informed by a life full of hard-won experience. Working the ineffable magic of a master craftsman, he frames an ancient sanctuary known to Homer, then focuses on the broken face of an exhausted emperor, before turning his eye on the sensuous torso of a goddess.

While most of us were sheltering from Covid, Don explored the mountains, valleys, and coast of western Turkey, hunting out the most poignant and powerful ruins of the Roman Empire. He has created a meditation on landscape, the effects of light on ancient stone, the way clouds animate the past, but it is also inescapably about past conflict. About conquest, about imperium, about power.

Journeys across Roman Asia Minor shows us a world still packed full of enchantment and wonder. He shows us pavements once trodden by Aristotle and Alexander the Great, Caesar and Sulla, St Paul and Hadrian. Through his lens, we view ancient theatres cascading down the slopes of mountains, two-thousand-year-old bridges still used by hill farmers, and find spring water flowing into fountains still dominated by statues of the gods.

Weight: 2812g
Dimension: 302 x 354 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780995756670