In his autobiography, 'Unreasonable Behaviour', Don McCullin spoke of his 'abiding love for India' after making his first trip down the Ganges in the company of travel-writer Eric Newby in the mid-sixties. Since then he has returned to the sub-continent again and again, sometimes on harrowing photojournalist assignments but more often for the sheer pleasure of imbibing the generous spirit of its people and enjoying what for him has become 'the most visually exciting place in the world'. Martin Amis has described McCullin as 'a ghostly film director floating around in real life', and it is real life in all its diversity that shines out from the pages of this book. In McCullin's eyes, beauty and dignity always rise above squalor and degradation through this remarkable collection of photographs, some of which record incidents that moved him to tears.
