Former World Press Photo winner and Magnum-member Larry Towell (1953), has been working for a considerable period of time on a series of photographs about El Salvador, one of the countries that were featured in the news quite a lot, but now seem to have been forgotten by the media.

In 1986 Towell went to El Salvador for the first time, while the war ended in the early nineties. In this series both wartime, as well as post-war life is represented. The death and hate shown in the photographs, is shown next to continuing everyday life. For example, he photographed women washing clothes under the supervision of some soldiers. Despite the war and the problems that arose afterwards, the good-natured, everyday things fascinated him more that anything. He became obsessed with personal history and with the fact that though violence or the threat of it is constantly present in that part of the world, people still celebrate the intimacy of the little things in life.