Louie Palu

VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW.

Louie Palu is a photographer and filmmaker whose work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and World Press Photo Award. Based in Washington, DC, he has covered US foreign policy and politics for twenty years.

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AUDIO / Fall 2010

The Underground Giant: Life in the Hard Rock Mines of Quebec and Ontario

By Louie Palu

I tag in. I am a number now. The worn, round metal tag hangs on a nail next to the level I will be working today. My number is my birth year—1968. If I don’t come up from the mine, they know where to start looking for me.

Shaft miner at the 2,500-foot-level station before mucking and drilling, Louvicourt Mine, Val-d’Or, Quebec.

REPORTING

The Fog of War: Returning from Guantánamo

By Louie Palu

Surrounded by the faces of Southern Afghanistan, it’s hard to remember this is Cuba.

Spring 2010

Total War

By Louie Palu

It was the peak of the Afghan fighting season, a time in late summer when all the perfect conditions for war come terribly together. The medics stood outside the UMS, like they had all summer long, waiting for the casualties. No one said a...