Precedent One.

Canadian Larry Towell was born in 1953. His business card reads 'Human- Being'. Towell grew up in a large family in rural Ontario. During studies in visual arts at Toronto's York University, he was given a camera and taught how to process black and white film.

In 1984 he became a freelance photographer and writer focusing on the dispossessed, exile and peasant rebellion. He completed projects on the Nicaraguan Contra war, on the relatives of the disappeared in Guatemala, and on American Vietnam War veterans who had returned to Vietnam to rebuild the country. His first published magazine essay, 'Paradise Lost', exposed the ecological consequences of the catastrophic Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound. He became a Magnum nominee in 1988, and a full member in 1993.

After this he then recieved a variety of awards, he was also involved in exhibitions, books, documentraries, collections and other film based project. All round he has been a pretty busy man. What i loved about his work was his ability to capture the unexpected within the landscape. He is able to capture human-being reactions or movements in many different situations, yet disregard there facial features, it is all baout capture body movement or human presence. He descrbes this further within this quote, "If there's one theme that connects all my work, I think it's that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities." (Larry Towell)

I would like to create the same feel within my work. Newtown is a busy place and there is bound to be human presence within my photographs, However i don't want the human presence to over power the picture. Being able to capture a person at the right time create a loss of the individuals identity. This can be staged in many portraits, but just like larry towell i will hopefully be at the right place at the right time.

This photo below is one of Larry Towells and i feel he has captured the moment well, in order to leave the audience asking many questions, like Who? Where? How? i hope to embrace the same aspect.