Visiting the Don McCullin Exhibition at the Tate Britain was an incredibly humbling and thought provoking exercise. Seeing his journey from a boy with a camera taking photos of the local gang for a local newspaper, to a weathered war photographer was incredible.

The images from the Berlin Wall particularly stuck with me as I visited Berlin over reading week this term, and when looking at the colourful artwork that covers it now it is easy to forget just how political and life altering the wall was for many people, the below image "Near Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 1961" really astounded me. The heavy machine gun on the floor pointed at the carefree pedestrians is something that is just really hard to wrap my head around that this was day to day life for these people.

The images that haunted me most were not the 'standard' war photography images, but those depicting the famine and destitution inflicted on the people of these countries while their governments waged war on eachother. In particular in the India-Pakistan war, the ability to not only maintain impartiality but also stand back and not intervene is something that I really don't think I would be able to manage.