Larry Towell: Biography

Larry Towell, a native of Canada, produced the photographs in this exhibition with the help of the 2003 Henri Cartier-Bresson prize. He is working on a book of photographs from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, to be called No Man's Land.

His other books of photographs, poetry, and oral history include Burning Cadillacs (1983), Gifts of War (1988), Somoza's Last Stand (1990), The Prison Poems of Ho Chi Minh (1992), House on Ninth Street (1994), El Salvador (1997), Then Palestine (1999), and The Mennonites (2000). Another book he is working on is "The World From My Front Porch." It consists of family photographs and text accompanied by a CD of original songs (Trolley, 2005). He is also recording a collection of conflict poems from Central America and the Middle East, set to music.

In addition to the Henri Cartier-Bresson prize, Towell has received the Hasselblad Foundation Award, the Eugene Smith Award, and the Roloph Beny, Ernst Haas, and Oskar Barnack awards.

Towell lives in rural Ontario and sharecrops a small farm with his wife and children.