The first of two exhibitions celebrating legendary photographer Don McCullin, who turned 90 last year, has opened in his home county of Somerset.
Don McCullin’s Broken Beauty at the Holburne in Bath (30 January to 4 May) features at its core a group of McCullin’s most recent works: images of Roman sculptures he has photographed in museums around the world. Alongside these intimate close-ups, displayed in the UK for the first time, the exhibition includes images drawn from across his seven-decade career and spanning conflict, humanitarian crises and post-war Britain, as well as landscape, portrait and still life.
Coinciding with the Holburne presentation is a retrospective at Hauser & Wirth in Bruton, Somerset. Running from 14 February to 12 April and entitled Don McCullin. 90, it will include works featured in the photographer’s 2019 Tate Britain exhibition in London alongside iconic images and others less familiar.
Having been evacuated to the safety of Somerset during the Blitz, McCullin has a lifelong connection with the county. In his 2025 book, The Stillness of Life, he writes: ‘Over the years going to various wars, this corner of Somerset has saved and restored my sanity and given me a sense of balance just witnessing the change of the seasons and soaking up the ensuring peace and silence of the land’.
Find out more about the Holburne exhibition here, and the Hauser and Wirth exhibition here.