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Personal statement by the Canadian Magnum photographer, Larry TOWELL
"In 1989, I discovered them in my own back yard, landhungry and dirt poor. They came looking for work in the vegetable fields and fruit orchards of Lambton, Essex, Kent and Haldimand-Norfolk Counties. I liked them a lot because they seemed otherworldly and therefore completely vulnerable in a society in which they did not belong and for which they were not prepared. Because I liked them, they liked me, and although photography was forbidden, they let me photograph them. That’s all there was to it." (Larry TOWELL)
Background information
"Canadian Magnum photographer Larry TOWELL photographed the Old Colony Mennonites in rural Ontario and Mexico between 1990 and 1999. The resulting black and white photographs—accompanied by an extensive text drawn from diary notes and ‘the silt of the memory’—formed his landmark book, 'The Mennonites', first published in 2000.
Content
This revised and updated second edition of 'The Mennonites' by Larry TOWELL revisits the project and includes forty previously unpublished photographs. It comes as a hadrback clothbound with 131 dutone images, in slipcase with black ribbon." (© Gost books, 2022)
Book reviews in: British Journal of Photography, Photojournalism Now, Washington Post, Publico, Polka, LFI magazine, HUCK magazine, Observer New Review