dinsdag, juni 10, 2003
Photojournalist Larry Towell will be in Paris July 3 to accept the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award. He won the prize, worth € 30,000, for a photo study he has called "a personal and poetic perception" of Israel and Palestine. When it is complete, the pictures will be exhibited at the Cartier-Bresson Foundation.
"I'm 50 years old. I've been plugging (away) my whole life," Towell said yesterday of his most recent award. He was in New York, discussing projects at Magnum Photos, where he is a member. The award is named for Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer credited with helping establish photojournalism as an art form.
"A lot of photographers are known for being first to arrive, being brave, dodging bullets," Towell says. "I tend to be the last to leave. It's like anthropology. You stay with the people. At first they're uncomfortable with you, they feel staged. But then you blend in and they become themselves. It's long-term, it's committed and it's personal. Also," he adds, "less saleable." In 1993 he was accepted into the Magnum photographers' co-operative, which sells his work and finds financial backing for his projects.
Bron: London Free Press.
"I'm 50 years old. I've been plugging (away) my whole life," Towell said yesterday of his most recent award. He was in New York, discussing projects at Magnum Photos, where he is a member. The award is named for Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer credited with helping establish photojournalism as an art form.
"A lot of photographers are known for being first to arrive, being brave, dodging bullets," Towell says. "I tend to be the last to leave. It's like anthropology. You stay with the people. At first they're uncomfortable with you, they feel staged. But then you blend in and they become themselves. It's long-term, it's committed and it's personal. Also," he adds, "less saleable." In 1993 he was accepted into the Magnum photographers' co-operative, which sells his work and finds financial backing for his projects.
Bron: London Free Press.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 10:48
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