From Beirut to Biafra: Don McCullin's war photographs go on show

Don McCullin stands in front of one of his photographs at Manchester's Imperial War Museum
Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA

Hue, Vietnam, February 1968: A US marine suffering severe shell shock waits to be evacuated from the battle zone
Photograph: Don McCullin

Hue, Vietnam, February 1968: A US soldier hurls a grenade. Moments later he was shot through the hand by a north Vietnamese sniper
Photograph: Don McCullin

Biafra, 1969: A starving albino boy, harassed and discriminated against for the colour of his skin, clutches an empty corned-beef tin at an orphanage
Photograph: Don McCullin

Cyprus, 1964: A grieving woman and her family
Photograph: Don McCullin

Beirut, Lebanon, 1976: Phalangists stand over the body of a Palestinian girl. (Don McCullin stayed to take this photograph despite being ordered to leave the area by the gunmen)
Photograph: Don McCullin

Don McCullin's damaged Nikon F camera, hit by a bullet from an AK-47 in Cambodia
Photograph: Richard Ash/Courtesy of Don McCullin

An annotated fabric-covered US army-issue helmet, used by Don McCullin, from 1968
Photograph: Richard Ash/Courtesy of Don McCullin

Don McCullin's NUJ press card from 1975, the year he was barred from Vietnam after being classified as undesirable following his 1972 coverage of the South Vietnamese army retreat
Photograph: Courtesy of Don McCullin

Don McCullin stands next to one of his images at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. The exhibition is the UK's largest-ever collection of McCullin's work, and includes his most iconic war images, contemporary landscapes and personal perspectives on more recent events
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