A deeply compelling look at a tumultuous country, Larry Towell's photographs are at once powerful and compassionate, revealing violence, heartbreak, strength and dignity. Since the beginning of the civil war in 1979, 50,000 people had been killed, 25 percent of the population were refugees and death squads terrorized the country. In his haunting photographs, we see a world in which everyone becomes a combatant and every place a war zone. Yet amid the brutality and death there is a harsh beauty, people grieve and move on; peasant women wash clothes and nurse infants under the watchful eyes of soldiers; children with hopeful faces forage the dumpsites for food.
Published by W.W. Norton 1997
