Louie Palu Louie Palu – Artist Talk & Screening
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, a Canadian documentary and photographer, examines socio-political issues such as war in his work. For over 30 years, he has explored human rights conflicts, poverty and strife, both nationally and globally. Born in Canada to Italian immigrant parents who witnessed the violence of the Second World War, Palu grew up hearing their stories of trauma and poverty, later shaping his voice as a documentary photographer. Throughout his career, Palu has created twelve series that examine the humanity within conflict, affording his subjects agency while challenging stereotypes associated with conflict photography. His work also draws on the tension between the photograph as a document and as an art object.