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. Article content

“This kid came in, a refugee from Czechoslovakia,” Towell said. Article content Article content

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 photographer’s career, opens Oct. 3.

“That is the nice thing about being in a small town, or a small area,” Towell said. “You do, somehow, have a connection with almost everybody.”

Raised in southern Lambton County, Towell returned to the area after university a

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