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His first press award was for photographing the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and his assignments have covered war, famine and poverty throughout the world.?<\/p>\n<p>McCullin?s subjects have also featured ecological disasters, Aids victims in Africa and tribes in Ethiopia. <\/p>\n<p>The RPS statement adds: ?However degrading the circumstances, his images document human conflict and grief with compassion through his own moral code.?<\/p>\n<p>Picture credit (above): Royal Photographic Society<\/p>\n<p>Picture (below) <i>Homeless Irishman, Spitalfields<\/i> by Don McCullin<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/keyassets.timeincuk.net\/inspirewp\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2007\/07\/lowresHomeless.jpg\" alt=\"Homeless Irishman, Spitalfields\"><\/img><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned war photographer Don McCullin will be awarded the Centenary Medal by the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) in October, it has been announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Picture credit: Royal Photographic Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":27611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-27610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don McCullin wins top honour - Amateur Photographer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Renowned war photographer Don McCullin will be awarded the Centenary Medal by the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) in October, it has been announced today. 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