Towell, Larry, 1953- : Larry Towell is an internationally known Canadian documentary photographer, and the only living Canadian member of the Magnum Photo Agency, founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, and based in Paris, France. Towell received a Fine Arts degree from York University in the early 1970s, and shortly thereafter began to travel the world with his camera in hand. He has photographed historically important conflicts in Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Palestine, Israel and Lebanon. He has completed photo stories in India and Vietnam, and on the Mexican Mennonite migrant workers in southwestern Ontario, as well as the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. His work also often includes audio and video documentation, as well as prose, poetry and song written and performed by Mr. Towell.
Larry Towell's work has been published extensively in books, magazines, newspapers and on compact disk. His work has been exhibited broadly in Europe and North American, and many of his photographs are housed in major collections. His reportage has appeared in magazines that include the New York Time, Life, GEO, Stern and the Globe and Mail. Mr. Towell has been the recipient of many photography awards, including several World Press and Pictures of the Year Awards, a Eugene Smith, the Oskar Barnak, Ernst Haas, the inaugural Roloff Beny Book Award, Alfred Eisenstadt and a Hasselblad Award. He was the first recipient of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award in 2003. In 2005 he was awarded France's Prix Nadar for his book of photographs. No Man's Land.
His publications include: In the Wake of Katrina (2006); No Man's Land, 2005; The Mennonites, 2000; Then Palestine, 1999; El Salvador, 1997; House on Ninth Street, 1994, The Prison Poems of Ho Chi Minh, 1992; Somoza's Last Stand, 1990; Gifts of War, 1988; and Burning Cadillacs, 1983.
