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Sarnia, ON – Gallery Lambton is pleased to announce its purchase of two photographs by Larry Towell, internationally respected photographer and resident of Lambton County. Towell has numerous books to his credit and lives with his family in the Township of Dawn-Euphemia. The purchase was made possible through a matching grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
In 2002 Gallery Lambton featured one of Towell’s exhibitions, featuring images from Palestine, El Salvador and his home life. He is a member of the prestigious photographic agency Magnum based in New York and in 2003 he won the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award from France for his work. Towell has published seven books between 1988 and 2000; he will publish an eighth book soon.
The photograph, La Batea Mennonite Colony, Mexico, 1992, a silver gelatine collector’s print, was published in 2000, in Towell’s book, The Mennonites. The Mennonites were initially from northern Europe and first came to North America in 1874. In 1922, the group was forced to integrate into Canadian society. About ten percent the Mennonites headed for Mexico while others went to Paraguay. By the 1950s some Mennonites started to return to Canada. In 1989, Towell met some of them in southern Ontario and his photographic documentation of their lives in Canada and Mexico began.
The second photograph, The Pear, Lambton County, Ontario, 1983 is also a silver gelatine collector’s print and will appear on the front cover of Towell’s forthcoming book, The World From My Front Porch. This photographic body of work is based on his family life in the County of Lambton. The Pear was exhibited at Gallery Lambton in 2002 and shows Towell’s wife Anne in the front seat of their pick-up truck with their son who is eating a pear. Home-life for Towell is a haven away from the tragic human struggles that he deals with in his photo-journalism in such war-torn countries as El Salvador, Palestine, and more recently New York during the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre.
Both of these works will be shown in a future exhibition of recent acquisitions, at Gallery Lambton, scheduled for February 26 to May 7, 2005.
For more information, contact Gallery Lambton at (519) 336-8127.
For more information about Lambton County, visit www.lambtononline.ca.
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Contact:
Holly Rutherford
Gallery Assistant Community Relations
County of Lambton
Telephone: (519) 336-8127
Fax: (519) 336-8128
email: holly.rutherford@county-lambton.on.ca
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