Sleeping with ghosts

Don McCullin, a photojournalist often credited with lifting his field into the realm of fine art, presents a career-spanning selection of his work. The collection gathers around 200 photographs he regards as his strongest. Several are widely recognised images, while many have never before appeared in print.

The pictures range far beyond the battlefield, though McCullin's war reporting is among them. Unemployed miners gather coal on a beach at first light, drifters move through London's East End, and homeless people appear in Bradford. McCullin also turns to landscape, particularly the hazy, shifting light of India, and to the quiet, affecting connections between people living through hard conditions.

McCullin's own life story, from a childhood in north London's criminal underworld to his rise as a reporter covering conflicts across the world, is told in his autobiography Unreasonable Behaviour. This volume stands on its own as a visual record of his work.