Louie Palu
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Louie Palu is an award winning documentary photographer and filmmaker with 26-years of professional experience who is well known for his work which examines social political issues such as human rights, conflict and poverty. Louie worked as a staff photographer for The Globe and Mail from 2001-2007 and is best known for his 5-years of covering the conflict in Southern Afghanistan based out of Kandahar and his study of organized crime and the drug war in Mexico (2011-2013). His work has been featured in print and online in TIME Magazine, Newsweek, The Sunday Times, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Match, The Atlantic, El Pais, La Republica and many others. His video work for the television pool in Kandahar has been broadcast worldwide in news and documentary programs. In 2015 he directed and produced the feature length documentary film "Kandahar Journals" and a short documentary on the war in Ukraine "Road Through War" (2016) which has been screened in film festivals and broadcast widely. He has worked on assignment in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Mali, Libya, Vietnam, Ukraine, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, UK, USA, Canada and many other countries. Louie has taught numerous workshops including courses covering working in hostile environments, first aid, photography and filmmaking. Louie is a member of the National Press Photographers Association, Canadian Association of Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the White House News Photographers Association. Louie is a 2016-17 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a feature film on the war in Ukraine and a long term project with National Geographic Magazine on the Arctic. |