Don McCullin In Conversation with Mariella Frostrup

Hauser & Wirth Somerset invite you to join Don McCullin In Conversation with Mariella Frostrup, in celebration of McCullin’s solo exhibition, ‘Conflict – People – Landscape’. Don McCullin is one of the most important photojournalists of the late twentieth century, best known for his broad war reportage and critical social documentation. Between 1966 and 1984, he worked for The Sunday Times Magazine under Editor-in-Chief Harold Evans and Art Editor David King, it was during this time he released his most celebrated images. In 1977 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, followed by the Royal Photographic Society’s Special 150th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 2003. In 1993 he became the first photojournalist to be honoured with a CBE in recognition of his sustained and significant contribution to photojournalism. Mariella Frostrup is a UK based journalist and television presenter, well known on British TV and radio for a variety of arts programmes. She has written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Mail on Sunday, Harpers & Queen and the New Statesman. Frostrup is also an art critic and has been on the judging panels for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Evening Standard Film Awards, the Amnesty International Media Awards, the Whitbread Book of the Year, the London Film Festival, and the RIBA Stirling Prize Awards 2006. In 2008, Frostrup received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of her contribution and commitment to journalism and broadcasting. The Roth Bar & Grill will be open exclusively for the evening after the event, dinner reservations can be booked online at www.rothbarandgrill.co.uk or by emailing mail@rothbarandgrill.co.uk. There will be time to view the exhibition at your own leisure both before and after the event. THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT (Don McCullin, Early morning at the Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India, 1989 © Don McCullin/Contact Press Images)