LOUIE PALU will present short videos taken in Afghanistan’s Southern Provinces of Kandahar and Helmand while he was embedded with Canadian, British and American troops in 2008. He will also discuss his public installation, War Zone Graffiti, located throughout the Queen West neighbourhood and Ace Lane - the alleyway behind the Shanghai Cowgirl.
Louie Palu graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1991. His work has appeared in numerous books, catalogues, festivals and exhibitions internationally, which includes being selected for the photojournalism festival Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France five times (2004-08) and also includes five nominations for the Visa d'Or in the Daily Press Award, Internationale Fototage in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen in Germany, George Eastman House, Ping Yao Festival in China, Fotografia International Festival of Rome, Voies Off Fringe Festival in Arles, France, Centrum for Fotografi in Stockholm, Sweden, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, including exhibitions and festivals in Italy, Canada, Australia, Russia, Portugal, France, Belgium and Brazil.
Louie is the recipient of numerous awards including a Critical Mass Book Award, Aftermath Grant, Hasselblad Master Award and a Best of Photojournalism Award from the NPPA in 2008, Silver Medal from the Society of Newspaper Design for photography and seven awards from the White House News Photographers Association. In the summer of 2006 he was selected for Photography Now: one hundred portfolios, as one of a 100 photographers included in an international survey of photography, which was juried by curators from Europe, Japan and the United States.
Louie's work is included in numerous private and public collections including The Library and Archives of Canada, The Canadian Museum of Civilization, Portland Art Museum, George Eastman House International Museum of Film and Photography and the Portrait Gallery of Canada. His work has been published in numerous publications worldwide including The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Forbes, NPR, and The Globe and Mail. Memberships and Professional Affiliations are White House News Photographers Association, US Senate Press Photographers Gallery, National Press Photographers Association, Canadian Association of Journalists, News Photographers Association of Canada.
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