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Larry Towell Biography

Larry Towell (born 1953, Chatham-Kent, Ontario) is a Canadian photographer, poet, and oral historian.

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My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.

Tired, Years, Wife, Realized, Bulldozed

. . . photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes?

Cameras, Eye, Interest, Rewards, Tremendous, Wonderful

If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.

Land, Lose, People, Think, Thinking

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

Immediate Gratification, Keep, People, Photographing, Share

Be yourself and look outside of yourself.

Being Yourself, Look, Looks

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

First Love, Looks, Photography, Poetry, Truthful

Russell Johnson

Russell Johnson

Christopher Paul Stelling

Christopher Paul Stelling

Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea

Bernardino of Siena

Bernardino of Siena

Al Oerter

Al Oerter

Aml Ameen

Aml Ameen

Cesar Aira

Cesar Aira

Terry Leahy

Terry Leahy

Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III

Brian Harvey

Brian Harvey

Benjamin Barber

Benjamin Barber

Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp