Indeed – Duncan was very good at what he did, and the power of his pgotos – especially through having the same subjects is immense.

The shot of the loyalist soldier is a superb image – real or fake I neither know nor care. It portrays the death of a soldier, and portryas it superbly. His Omaha beach stuff has a quality all of its own – yet how would they have looked normally? His photos in requiem, and in some of the other books i’ve seen on him, I never felt were of a standard to make me go ‘wow’. Standard fare in special circumstances.