"Pictures to hurt you": A war photographer's final testament to Vietnam
"I want my pictures to hurt," British war photographer Sir Don McCullin told CBS News ahead of the publication of his final book: "Vietnam."
Updated on: September 21, 2026 / 2:05 PM EDT / CBS News
"I want my pictures to hurt you, I don't want you having any free rides, I'm there to upset you and I'm there to make you feel uncomfortable the way I feel when I go to bed at night, otherwise there's no point in me going in the first place."
For more than 50 years, McCullin covered conflicts across the world, from Cyprus, Biafra and Israel to Lebanon, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
Now the 90-year-old is preparing to publish a powerful retrospective of a conflict that defined both his career and a generation: "Vietnam."
The book draws from thousands of images McCullin captured during multiple assignments in Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s.