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War Photographer

by Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955)

A war photographer develops his pictures alone in a darkroom in rural England, caught between the horrors he has witnessed abroad and the brief sympathy of distant readers.

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4ET1 Component 1 (Unit 1) Section B, and the modular 4XET1. All sixteen are compulsory, not a choice. Expressly NOT part of 4EA1.

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All sixteen texts in Part 3 are compulsory.

Part 3 of the anthology, page 63.

Source: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology, Issue 8, February 2026 (read 2026-09-19).