![]() Charlottesville, VirginiaĢ008 One of the year’s best pictures, Photo District NewsĢ007 Achievement In Filmmaking Award, New York Independent Film And Video FestivalĢ007 Alicia Patterson Award (USA, Finalist)Ģ006 PDN Photo Annual: One of the year’s best projectsĢ005 Prix Nadar (best photography book published in France 2005.)Ģ003 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (France)Ģ001 British Design and Art Direction (D&AD) Award London, UK (1st Prize)Ģ000 Society for News Design Award, La Nacion (Argentina)Ģ000 Photo-eye Award, Citation of Excellence (USA)ġ999 Hasselblad Foundation Award (Sweden)ġ999 POY (Pictures of the Year, University of Missouri) special recognition, Canon Photo Essayistġ999 POY Best Use of Photography in Booksġ998 Alfred Eisenstadt Award Portraiture, Columbia University, NYC, (1st prize)ġ998 Pictures of the Year Foundation, University of Missouri Pictorial (1st prize)ġ998 Pictures of the Year Foundation, University of Missouri Feature Stories (2nd prize)ġ998 Overseas Press Club, New York, Citation of Excellence.ġ998 Society of Publication Designers (SPD) Magazine of the Year, NY Times, BEING 13ġ998 SPD- Merit Award, New York Times Magazineġ997 Maine Photographic Workshops, Golden Light Award for El Salvador, best monograph/book of 1997ġ997 SPD- Merit Award, LIFE MAGAZINE, Feature Storyġ996 Pictures of the Year Foundation, Special Recognition, Canon Photo Essayist With the help of the inaugural Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, he finished a second highly acclaimed book on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in 2005, and in 2008 released the award-winning The World From My Front Porch, a project on his own family in rural Ontario where he sharecrops a 75-acre farm.Ģ011 Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award, Ontario Arts FoundationĢ010 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund AwardĢ009 The World From My Front Porch- One of ten best photo books of 2008, Photo-eyeĢ009 The World From My Front Porch- And/or Photography Book Award (Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, UK- shortlisted)Ģ009 T he World From My Front Porch- One of 50 Best photo books of the year. His fascination with landlessness also led him to the Mennonite migrant workers of Mexico, an eleven-year project completed in 2000. In 1996, Towell completed a project based on ten years of reportage in El Salvador, followed the next year by a major book, Then Palestine. He became a Magnum nominee in 1988 and a full member in 1993. His first published magazine essay, Paradise Lost, exposed the ecological consequences of the catastrophic Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. He completed projects on the Nicaraguan Contra war, on the relatives of the disappeared in Guatemala, and on American Vietnam War veterans who had returned to Vietnam to rebuild the country. In 1984, he became a freelance photographer and writer focusing on the dispossessed, exile and peasant rebellion. Back in Canada, he taught folk music to support himself and his family. During studies in visual arts at Toronto’s York University, he was given a camera and taught how to process black and white film.Ī stint of volunteer work in Calcutta in 1976 provoked Towell to photograph and write. The son of a car repairman, Towell grew up in a large family in rural Ontario, Canada. Experience as a poet and a folk musician have done much to shape his personal style. Larry Towell’s business card reads ‘Human Being’.
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