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Starving twenty-four year old mother with child, Biafra
Don McCullin took this photograph while on assignment for the Sunday Times Magazine. He was sent to document the Biafran war, in which a million people died over a three-year period. The war resulted in widespread famine and disease, highlighted in this harrowing portrait of a mother, only 24 years of age, attempting to breastfeed her infant child. She appears dignified, gazing directly into the lens of the camera. Her raw expression forces the viewer to comprehend the atrocities of war and its devastating impact on civilians.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 55053
Creation/Production
Don, McCULLIN
Date: 1968
Acquisition
Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017
Measurements
h(cm) image size:31.6
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:21.1
w(cm)
h(cm) paper size:32.7
w(cm) paper size:22.1
Techniques
gelatin silver print on paper
Material
Photographic paper
Location
In store
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