Louie Palu

Louie is an award winning documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in festivals, publications, exhibitions and collections internationally. He 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 the recipient of numerous awards including a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant, 2011-12 Bernard L Schwartz Fellowship with the New America Foundation and Milton Rogovin Fellowship. He is well known for his work which examines social political issues such as human rights, conflict and poverty. Exhibitions His work has been exhibited in the photojournalism festival Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France nine times (2004-11, 13), Internationale Fototage in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, George Eastman House, Ping Yao Festival, Fotografia International Festival of Rome, Centrum for Fotografi (Sweden), New York Photo Festival, Canadian War Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Annenberg Space For Photography, The Walter's Art Museum, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and many others. Collections His work is in numerous collections including Harry Ransom Center, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Library and Archives of Canada, Center of Creative Photography, Portland Art Museum, George Eastman House, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, National Gallery of Canada, Library of the U.S. Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections Branch (Quantico, Virginia), Southeast Museum of Photography, Australian War Memorial, Imperial War Museum in London UK, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and many others. Awards He is the recipient of numerous accolades including a National Magazine Award, National Newspaper Award nominee, Pictures of the Year International (POYi), Critical Mass Book Award, Hasselblad Master Award, NPPA Best of Photojournalism Award and multiple awards from the White House News Photographers Association, Aftermath Project Grant, Canadian Photojournalist of the Year, Alexia Foundation Photography Grant for World Peace and Cultural Understanding. He was also part of several online multimedia awards including two Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA) in 2013-14. In 2015 he was awarded a Ross Munro Media Award and Milton Rogovin Fellowship from the Center of Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Publication (Print + Online) His work has been featured in the BBC, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Al Arabiya, PBS NewsHour, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Daily Mail, Foreign Policy, Paris Match, TIME, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Toronto Star, The Economist, NPR, VOA, Huffington Post, CBC, The Globe and Mail, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times Magazine and many others. His work has been featured in numerous books and catalogues on photography. He was selected for the Critical Mass Book award (2006) resulting in the book “Cage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock Mining Belt”. Film Louie has produced numerous feature length and short films. He is the Producer and co-director of the critically acclaimed award winning feature documentary film "Kandahar Journals" (76 min) which was released in 2015. It has screened in numerous festivals in the U.S., South America and Europe. It was selected for the Festival Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival, Dziga Vertov Award for Best Feature Documentary and several others. More can be seen here www.kandaharjournals.com. He has just completed a second film which is a documentary short titled "Road Through War" (19 min) which is a road trip along the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Academia Louie has lectured and given workshops internationally for the National Press Photographers Association, George Washington University, George Mason University, University of Verona, University of Texas at Austin, University of Jyväskylä, Ryerson University, University of Toronto, American University, Society of Professional Journalists, London College of Communications, Ontario College of Art and Design, Hamburg University, University of the Arts Philadelphia, Temple University, Syracuse University, Rochester Institute of Technology, San Francisco Art Institute, International Center of Photography, National Gallery of Canada and the European Consortium of Political Research conference in Rejkjavik, Iceland and many others. Louie has been a coach at the NPPA Multimedia Immersion Workshop and a featured speaker at the NPPA Northern Short Course.??Louie was a 2012-13 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow with the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank that engages in U.S. public policy issues. His fellowship focused on an in-depth study of the Mexican drug war and organized crime. His work from the fellowship was published widely and was awarded numerous prizes. In 2015 Louie was selected for a Milton Rogovin Fellowship at the Center Creative Photography at the University of Arizona which focused on a research on Rogovin's work in Buffalo NY.?