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LARRY TURNER

Welcome to this small window into my wor ld

irginia Wolfe once said, documentarian. Wherever I go, I and landscape of the American
“If one does not lie back attend to light…and light attends West.
Vand sum up and say to the to me. The camera is my tool of
moment, this very moment, stay choice toward bearing witness to “I live a simple and rich life.
you are so fair, what will be one’s my life’s journey.” My greatest heroes are my fam-
gain, dying? No: stay this moment. ily. They taught me that if you
No one ever says that enough.” Turner’s work has appeared in have love, you have everything.
However, photographers say that countless books, magazines, Entitlement is something that I’ve
when they make a poignant pho- calendars, gallery shows, post- never known. Love, hard work,
tograph, the moment is captured ers, and newspapers including and sensitivity toward my fellow
forever. This is Larry Turner’s Range Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, human and other life forms are
quest: “To stay this moment” National Geographic Traveler, Sunset, some things that I do know.”
through photographic images, Travel and Leisure, The Denver
where moments are made still Post, Gourmet, American Heritage, www.larryturnerphotography.com
and alive forever. Browntrout Publishers, Avalanche
Publishers, Barnes and Noble,
Widely published Malin, Oregon Nevada Magazine, Southern Oregon
photographer and writer Larry Turner’s photographs are Magazine and Grant Heilman
Turner is one of the world’s like his life. “I’m not separate Stock Photo Agency outlets. He is
most diverse photographers. from my experience. I am a noted for his work of the people

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