Sarnia exhibition celebrates Lambton County photographer Larry Towell

Larry Towell remembers being a Grade 10 high school student in Wallaceburg in the late 1960s, around the time the Soviet Union forcefully ended the reforms of the Prague Spring. “This kid came in, a refugee from Czechoslovakia,” Towell said. All these years later, that fellow student’s daughter, Sonya Blazek, is curator-supervisor of the Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery in downtown Sarnia where Larry Towell: Boundaries, an exhibition covering four decades of the celebrated ph