"Larry Towell: Projects"
2005-05-06 until 2005-05-28
Michael Gibson Gallery
London, ON, CA Canada

Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario shows works by Larry Towell in an exhibit entitled Projects during May, 2005. Towell will be releasing his Dark Years CD and signing copies of No Man's Land, his book of new photographs documenting the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the West Bank. The exhibition introduces Larry Towell's photography to London. Towell offers an intimate look into humanity. The exhibition includes several series of work: the wreckage of the World Trade Center in NYC; the war-torn people of El Salvador; and the domestic scenes of Mennonite migrant workers of Mexico. Towell finds the dignity in each subject that he photographs revealing both terror and hope, violence and peace, and suffering and compassion.

Despite his membership in the presitigious Magnum Photos in New York, Towell is a modest artist whose business card reads "human being". Born and raised in rural Ontario, Towell trained at York University before becoming a freelance reportage photographer. He has travelled extensively worldwide, including Calcutta, Nicaragua, Gautemala, Vietnam and Mexico, to capture the stories of the people. Towell is the inaugural winner of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award given in Paris in 2003.

IMAGE
Larry Towell
Durango Colony, Durango, Mexico
Gelatin Silver Print, 1994
16 x 20 in.
©Larry Towell/Magnum Photos

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