Irreconcilable Truths: a 1500-page survey of legendary photographer Don McCullin’s work

Over a 50-year career Don McCullin has gained the status as one the world’s greatest living photographers. A new, limited edition, three-volume boxed retrospective of his life and work, titled Irreconcilable Truths has been published by The Provocateur Press containing over 700 images and weighing 24kg.

The first volume contains Don’s acclaimed photojournalism from the last five decades with images taken during the conflicts in Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam and his most recent trip to northern Iraq to cover the Kurdish militia’s frontline with Isis. The second volume, titled Landscape, Still Lifes and Travel, is a photographic essay that includes photographs of the English, African, Indonesian and Indian landscapes alongside carefully constructed still lives. The final volume, Unreasonable Behaviour, is an updated version of Don’s autobiography that contains items and photographs from his personal archive and provides context to his life’s work.

Totalling over 1500 pages and published in an edition of 1000, the production and photo edit of this retrospective has been overseen by Don himself. “For the past 50 years he has proved himself a photojournalist without equal, whether documenting the poverty of London’s East End, or the horrors of wars in Africa, Asia or the Middle East. Simultaneously he has proved an adroit artist capable of beautifully arranged still lifes, soulful portraits and moving landscapes,” says the publisher.