About Louie Palu
Louie Palu's 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 eight times (2004-11), Internationale Fototage in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen in Germany, George Eastman House, Ping Yao Festival in China, Fotografia International Festival of Rome, Centrum for Fotografi in Stockholm, Sweden, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and was selected for the 2009 New York Photo Festival and CONTACT Photography Festival.
Louie is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Magazine Award, Critical Mass Book Award, Hasselblad Master Award, Best of Photojournalism Award from the NPPA, Silver Medal from the Society of Newspaper Design and multiple awards from the White House News Photographers Association. In 2009 he was awarded an Aftermath Grant for a project on veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Hearst Photography Biennial Award and Canadian Photojournalist of the Year, a 2010 Alexia Foundation Photography Grant for World Peace and Cultural Understanding for a project on Kandahar, Afghanistan and is a 2011 Bernard L Schwartz fellow with the New America Foundation.
Louie's work is included in numerous private and public collections including The Library and Archives of Canada, Portland Art Museum, George Eastman House International Museum of Film and Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, National Gallery of Canada and Southeast Museum of Photography.
His work has been published in numerous publications worldwide including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Match, TIME, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Toronto Star, The Walrus, Geist, National Post, The Economist, NPR, The Globe and Mail, Wall Street Journal, DOUBLEtruck Magazine, zReportage and Sunday Times Magazine. 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. He covered the war in Afghanistan over five years and is well known for his work on the detention center in Guantanamo Bay.
Representation -
International Editorial Sales - ZUMA Press www.zumapress.com
Canadian Editorial Sales - The Canadian Press www.thecanadianpress.com
Canadian Gallery Sales - Kinsman Robinson Galleries www.kinsmanrobinson.com
UK Agent - FOTO8 - www.foto8.com
Lectures
Louie has lectured and given workshops internationally which includes The Finnish Centre of Excellence at the University of Jyväskylä Finland, Ryerson University, University of Toronto, American University for the Society of Professional Journalists, London College of Communications (UK), Ontario College of Art and Design, Hamburg University, European Consortium of Politcial Research (ECPR) conference in Rejkjavik, Iceland, George Mason University and many others.