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Magnum Photos: Backstage with Larry Towell

I have written about my experiences with Magnum and about new multimedia essays before. Today I am excited to let you know about a new project Magnum In Motion did. It's not one of the multimedia essays where you see a slideshow of photographs together with the photographers voice and street sounds but something else... It's a look backstage with Larry Towell, one of the great Magnum photographers.
This multimedia story is divided into 4 main chapters: El Salvador, Palestine, Mexico and Canada as well as into 6 extras such as "The Way Into Magnum", "Making Books" or "Inside The Photobag".

Bjarke "BJ" Myrthu from Magnum In Motion (who really put a lot of work in this new story) and Andreas Monie Boggild - a Danish film maker - visited Larry Towell for a weekend a couple of months ago on his farm in Canada. They interviewed and filmed Larry Towell. I have to admit that I am pretty jealous... ;-) He is such a great photographer with an egagement for the people and topics he photographs you can not find that often. I only met him twice. The first time was last year when I came to New York to attend Magnums AGM party in June and the second time about 4 months ago when he came to the office.

Anyway. This new story which is very much build like a movie gives a great insight into the person Larry Towell as well as into his work and motivations. Magnum did a great job on that and you can expect more of this sort to come along soon. Please let us know what you think!

Posted by Martin Fuchs on October 22, 2005 10:03 PM