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Book - El Salvador 

Larry Towell 

Larry Towell's photographs of El Salvador, at once powerful and compassionate, reveal a country of violence and heartbreak as well as strength and dignity. Towell first traveled to El Salvador in 1986 as a member of a human rights delegation. Since the beginning of the civil war, which started in 1979, 50,000 people had been killed, 25 percent of the population had become refugees, and death squads continued to terrorize the streets. The war ended in the early 1990s, but not without lasting repercussions. In Towell's haunting photographs, we see a world in which everyone is a combatant and every... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Perquin, Morazan. A dog is seen through the photographer's... 

Larry Towell 1995

EL SALVADOR. 1995. 

Larry Towell 1995

EL SALVADOR. 1995. 

Larry Towell 1995

Guazapa Mountain. 1995. A child and rooster at communal well.... 

Larry Towell 1995

San Jose las Flores, Chalatenango. 1995. San Jose las Flores... 

Larry Towell 1989

San Salvador. 1989. Shadows of civilians descending a hill after... 

Larry Towell 1989

Soyapango. 1989. A man tries to play a guitar riddled with bullet... 

Larry Towell 1991

Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. An FMLN guerilla enteres Santa Marta,... 

Larry Towell 1991

Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. A mother and grandmother hold new... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. Jocoatique, Morazan. 1992. 

Larry Towell 1991

Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. A young boy runs with the only TV... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Guazapa. El Barillo. 1991. A child in beams of sunlight... 

Larry Towell 1991

Santa Marta, Cabanas. 1991. Mother washing at community "pila"... 

Larry Towell 1995

EL SALVADOR. Perquin. Morazan. The One-time capital of the FMLN... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Guarjila, Chalatenango. 1991. 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. Segundo Montes, Morazan. 1992. 

Larry Towell 1986

EL SALVADOR. El Barillo. A government Army maneuver near Guazapa... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Morazan. 1991. Young guerilla recruits from Segundo... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 1992. Woman with blanket in the General... 

Larry Towell 1991

San Salvador. 1991. During the presidential election campaign,... 

Larry Towell 1986

San Salvador. 1986. Newborn babies in the unsanitary and crowded... 

Larry Towell 1986

San Salvador. 1986. Mothers of the "Disappeared" display images... 

Larry Towell 1989

San Salvador. 1989. Government soldiers disembark from an armoured... 

Larry Towell 1989

San Salvador. 1989. A government soldier stands above a dead... 

Larry Towell 1989

San Salvador. 1989. A dead civilian woman lies on a sidewalk.... 

Larry Towell 1989

San Salvador. 1989. A Green Cross volunteer moves the body of... 

Larry Towell 1989

San Salvador. 1989. The mutilated corpses of two guerilla youths... 

Larry Towell 1989

San Salvador. 1989. A wounded civilian woman recovers with her... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Morazan. 1991. A young guerilla recruit bathes on... 

Larry Towell 1989

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. Two guerilla women inside emergency... 

Larry Towell 1991

Guarjila, Chalatenago. 1991. Dead guerilla lays in coffin looked... 

Larry Towell 1991

Soyapango. 1991. Teenagers kiss. They live in an abandoned trailer... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. San Jose las Flores, Chalatenango. FMLN guerillas... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. 1992. 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Guarjila, Chalatenango. 1991. Combat aftermath,... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. Perquin, Morazan. 1992. Fourteen-year-old guerilla... 

Larry Towell 1991

Larry Towell 1991

Perquin, Morazan. 1991. Government soldier in cemetery in Perquin,... 

Larry Towell 1995

San Salvador. 1995. Former government soldier learning to cane... 

Larry Towell 1995

San Salvador. 1995. Centro de Rehabilitacion Profesional de la... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. Ex-government soldier learns to make... 

Larry Towell 1995

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Cabanas. 1991. Many graves were exhumed by the Non-Governmental... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 1991. A daughter comforts her mother... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 1992. A woman selling bottled soft... 

Larry Towell 1988

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 1988. Many families, displaced by... 

Larry Towell 1995

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 1995. A homeless child sniffs glue... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. Child with star mask during "Day Of... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 1992. Many young women in the Third... 

Larry Towell 1995

San Salvador. 1995. Bar where women's bodies are postered. The... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 1992. Homeless man on street, sleeping.... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. 1991. A child plays with baby chicks... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. 1991. Vultures circle in the sky above... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. 1991. A child with a sheet plays with... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. 1991. A child scavenges salvage for resale.... 

Larry Towell 1992

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. 1992. San Salvador city dump. Child salvages... 

Larry Towell 1995

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. San Salvador city dump. Vultures and... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. 1991. Resident children of the San Salvador... 

Larry Towell 1991

Soyapango. 1991. Families live in houses made of salvaged plastic... 

Larry Towell 1991

EL SALVADOR. Soyapango. A fourteen-year-old pregnant girl lives... 
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