Louie Palu

Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work has appeared in numerous publications, festivals, and exhibitions internationally. His work has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Economist, the Globe and Mail, and the Sunday Times Magazine. He has worked on assignment internationally and over the course of the last four years has focused on the war in Afghanistan and the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

The Golden Triangle

By Louie Palu

Louie Palu describes his twelve years of photographing the mines and mining towns of the Canadian Shield

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...