India

In his autobiography, Unreasonable Behaviour, Don McCullin spoke of his 'abiding love of India' after making his first trip down the Ganges in the company of the travel-writer Eric Newby in the mid-sixties. Since then he has returned to the sub-continent again and again, sometimes on harrowing photojournalist assignments but more often for the sheer pleasure of imbibing the generous spirit of its people and enjoying what for him has become 'the most visually exciting place in the world.' In McCullin's eyes, beauty and dignity always rise above squalor and degradation through this remarkable collection of photographs, some of which record incidents that moved him to tears.