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Daily Life - 2nd prize

January 01, 1994

Family album: Isaac Towell, the photographer's son, between the Queen Anne's lace flowers down the road from his house. Isaac is wearing a bonnet made by his mother Ann.

January 01, 1993

Family album: Isaac Towell, the photographer's son, held by his mother Ann above a corn field a few hundred yards down the road from his home and in front of an abandoned farmhouse from pioneers.

January 01, 1983

Family album: Moses Towell, the photographer's oldest son eats a pear with his mother Ann in their 1951 pickup truck.

January 01, 1992

Family album: Ann Towell, the photographer's wife, seen through the windshield of the family car in front of their house. Daughter Naomi can be seen on the right. Larry Towell's wife Ann, his sons Moses and Isaac and his daughters Sarah and Naomi near his home. The photographer experiences a sense of exile when he is working abroad.

January 01, 1990

Family album: Naomi Towell, the photographer's daughter, with her cat in a hollow black locust tree.

January 01, 1990

Family album: Naomi Towell, the photographer's daughter, and neighbour Sarah Lewis feed cows from a bucket of corn in the pasture beside the photographer's house.

January 01, 1989

Family album: Naomi and Ann, the photographer's daughter and wife lay in bed. Ann is pregnant with Noah, who was born a month later.

January 01, 1992

Family album: Naomi Towell, the photographer's daughter stand by the window inside an abandoned farmhouse down the road from her home.

January 01, 1993

Family album: Noah Towell, the photographer's son gets a haircut by his mother Ann in the kitchen, while his sister Naomi holds the mirror.

January 01, 1993

Family album: Naomi Towell, the photographer's daughter, sits on the freezer in the summer kitchen, getting changed after swimming with her brothers in the river with near their home.

January 01, 1992

Family album: Naomi, Moses and Noah Towell, the photographer's children, play in a snowstorm at home. Noah is sitting in a toboggan, while Naomi stands in the doorway of the woodworking shop attached to the house. The wood pile against the wall was cut by the photographer to burn in his wood stove during the winter.

January 01, 1994

Family album: Isaac Towell, the photographer's son, plays with sunlight on the table.

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People in the News - 3rd prize

Larry Towell

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1995 Photo Contest - Daily Life - 2nd prize
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Larry Towell

Magnum Photos

01 January, 1994

Family album: Isaac Towell, the photographer's son, plays with sunlight on the table.

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Larry Towell

Larry Towell has worked for many years as a freelance Magnum photographer in areas of conflict and social unrest. His work has resulted in thirteen books, hundreds of journal pub...

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