Larry Towell Lambton County, Ontario. Canada. 1996.
“I live on the Sydenham River, which cuts my Ontario farm in half. I was brought up on this water, and we bought the farm because of it. When I was a young
(...) man, I lived on a raft for two and a half years. It’s part of my skin. When the children were young, they spent their summers using this water as a swimming hole. When Isaac was a year old, I asked Naomi to bring him into the river. This was his first swim. He was invigorated.
Capa’s notion of closeness was never just physical. It was also emotional. In the summer, I still swim in that river almost every day. The memory of our children as babies lingers here with the smell of water and vegetation.”
— Larry Towell © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos
