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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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