Thames & Hudson and Prix Pictet present: Don McCullin “On Photography”

Thursday 15 May 2025

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Screening Room

Don McCullin by Aidan Sullivan

“Sir Don McCullin is certainly one of Britain’s best known journalists. His searing reporting from the torn places of the world became a part of the national vocabulary. Still working today, Sir Don casts a very long and thoughtful view at the uses and costs of photography.”

Ticket Price: £10.00

Francis Hodgson

Francis Hodgson is Professor in the Culture of Photography at the University of Brighton, having established himself as a critical writer on photography. Hodgson was for some years the writer on photography for the Financial Times, having previously been a frequent contributor both to the broadsheet and the specialised press on the subject. Hodgson has separately held a number of senior posts in businesses centred upon the photograph: he has been the Head of the Photographs Department at Sotheby’s auction house and creative director of Photonica and Image Source (both large commercial photo-libraries).

In the past, Hodgson has run a number of specialised galleries in photography, including the Print Room of The Photographers’ Gallery in London and Zwemmer Fine Photographs. He was also a founding senior vice president in charge of content at the trail-blazing online art gallery Eyestorm. Hodgson’s career has the quality (rare among specialists in photography) of being shared equally between the commercial and cultural aspects of the field.

Hodgson is a co-founder of the leading photography prize the Prix Pictet (on which he has twice served as chairman of the panel of judges). He has also been the chairman of judges on the Sony World Photography Awards, judged the Jerwood Awards, D&AD, British Journal of Photography Awards and AoP awards among others.