Don McCullin, 1962, October, The Cuban Missile Crisis. An anti-war protester confronts British police during a demonstration in Whitehall, London., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Don McCullin, LL/34368

Don McCullin, 1964, April, Civil war in Cyprus. A distraught mother mourns the death of her husband, Ghaziveram., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Don McCullin, LL/34366

Don McCullin, 1967, June, The Six Day War. An Israeli paratrooper near the Wailing Wall during the assault on Jerusalem., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Don McCullin, LL/34371

Don McCullin, 1968, February, Don McCullin with Delta Company, 1/5th US Marines during the Battle for Hue, Tet Offensive, Vietnam., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph ©: Nik Wheeler, LL/34363

Don McCullin, 1968, February, Delta Company, 1/5th US Marines in action during the Battle for Hue, Tet Offensive, Vietnam., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Don McCullin, LL/34360

Don McCullin, 1968 (helmet issue), Don McCullin's US military issue helmet, worn during the Battle for Hue and subsequent war assignments., Colour image, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Imperial War Museum, LL/34362

Don McCullin, 1970, Don McCullin's Nikon F camera, damaged by a Khmer Rouge AK47 bullet at Prey Veng, Cambodia., Colour image, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Imperial War Museum, LL/34358

Don McCullin, 1971, Riots in Northern Ireland. Don McCullin simultaneously dodges a British Army Humber 'Pig' and the missiles being thrown by rioters in the Bogside, Londonderry., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Clive Limpkin, LL/34364

Don McCullin, 1971, August, Refugees from the War in Bangladesh. A mother and child in a refugee camp on the Indian frontier., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Don McCullin, LL/34370

Don McCullin, 1975, Don McCullin's National Union of Journalists accreditation, Colour image, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Imperial War Museum, LL/34369

Don McCullin, 1990, Don McCullin, Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Philippe Vermes, LL/34367

Don McCullin, 2002, Tribal family with AK 47 Rifle, Omo Valley, Ethiopia., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Don McCullin, LL/34361

Don McCullin, 2009, May, Don McCullin, Somerset., Colour image, Imperial War Museum, Photograph © Hilary Roberts, Imperial War Museum, LL/34359