Looking

So many people had been, including a fair few Blippers, and everyone who had been said it was excellent. So, we decided to make the trip to London, just in time before the exhibition closes. We got the train from Alnmouth (very early!), arrived at Kings Cross and two buses later we were at Tate Britain and looking at the Don McCullin photographs.

And we were so glad we made the effort. What an experience. The range of photographs is amazing, covering war zones, cities of Britain (including Bradford and Hartlepool) in the 50s, 60s and 70s and lots, lots more. Some photos seemed vaguely familiar and then you realised you must have seen them when they appeared in the Observer or somewhere at the time. Many disturbing scenes of conflict, violence, poverty, suffering. But all the time one feels that the photographer had an empathy with his subjects. I was very taken with his landscapes too - almost war zones themselves - sombre, bleak, leaden skies. 

People had warned us to give the exhibition time, our daughter said 'wear comfortable shoes!' and they were right. One had to look, ponder and look again. I was trying to convey this in this picture. 

We spent longer than we thought we would at the exhibition, but it was well worth it. On returning to Kings Cross via St Pancras we had time for something to eat and managed to meet up with our younger daughter too. She was on her way to meet her sister and to see Take That.