Larry Towell
14 Apr - 18 Jun 2006
Larry Towell
No Man's Land
14 April - 18 June 2006
Since the 1980s Larry Towell (b. 1953, Canada), photographer and writer, has focused on social themes in which he concentrates on groups of people who have been scarred by war or exile. He is especially interested in the role and function of the possession or loss of land in a person’s life; land as territory, the cultural area in which people’s roots are based and through which their identity is formed. For Towell the function of land is all-embracing, land makes us what we are. Without land we lose our identity.
Over a period of ten years Towell has documented the lives of Palestinians in confrontational black-and-white images, including many panoramic views, during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Towell photographed the destructive effect on the land and its inhabitants in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and refugee camps, and followed the construction of the separation fence. Most of the photos were made during the second Intifada, the most violent years of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The exhibition shows work by Towell from 2000 to 2004 with a number of shots taken earlier in the 1990s.
Image: Teenager with sling loading stone behind barricade, Ramallah, Cisjordanie, 2001 © Larry Towell / Agency Magnum
No Man's Land
14 April - 18 June 2006
Since the 1980s Larry Towell (b. 1953, Canada), photographer and writer, has focused on social themes in which he concentrates on groups of people who have been scarred by war or exile. He is especially interested in the role and function of the possession or loss of land in a person’s life; land as territory, the cultural area in which people’s roots are based and through which their identity is formed. For Towell the function of land is all-embracing, land makes us what we are. Without land we lose our identity.
Over a period of ten years Towell has documented the lives of Palestinians in confrontational black-and-white images, including many panoramic views, during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Towell photographed the destructive effect on the land and its inhabitants in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and refugee camps, and followed the construction of the separation fence. Most of the photos were made during the second Intifada, the most violent years of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The exhibition shows work by Towell from 2000 to 2004 with a number of shots taken earlier in the 1990s.
Image: Teenager with sling loading stone behind barricade, Ramallah, Cisjordanie, 2001 © Larry Towell / Agency Magnum