TCF Ep. 449 - Louie Palu

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Louie Palu is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in festivals, publications, exhibitions, and collections internationally. He is the recipient of numerous awards including two Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grants, 2011-12 Bernard L Schwartz Fellowship with the New America Foundation and Milton Rogovin Fellowship at the University of Arizona. He is well known for his work which examines social-political issues such as human rights, conflict, and poverty. His photographic work has allowed him to tell the stories of individuals, NGO’s and big multi-national corporations, across more than 20 countries. While his philosophical musing about life, photography, and creativity have and continue to inspire creatives all over the world. Louie has produced numerous feature-length and short films which have screened at festivals such as Docs Barcelona, DOK.fest in Munich, DOKU. Arts in Berlin and also premiering on the Documentary Channel. 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 Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This is a body in X, and this is the Barienex, and this is The Candid Frame.
0:22.5	Stories of the last decades-long war and conflict in the Middle East rarely make the front
0:27.9	pages of newspapers and magazines anymore.
0:31.6	If anything rises to public attention nowadays, it usually has more to do with political
0:36.5	posturing than the long-term
0:38.3	effects of conflict, not only on soldiers, but the countless number of people for whom war
0:43.9	is a painfully palpable thing. Thankfully, there are photographers like Canadian Louis Palou,
0:51.2	who has made it his mission to tell the stories that are too easily lost amidst the
0:56.2	endless drone of a 24-hour news cycle. In his work as a photojournalist, including several
1:03.2	stints in Afghanistan, Louis has strived to great photographs that make a difference, that do
1:08.6	more than just serve as an illustration for an article.
1:12.5	His passion was born by more than a desire to have an exciting career.
1:17.7	The seeds of it were likely planted when he was just a boy, as his parents shared their own
1:22.8	personal experiences of war.
1:25.7	However, their stories, especially the more graphic tales, did not come easily.
1:31.3	They didn't give up the information, the deeper part of the information.
1:36.3	Early on, it was more used as lessons. Like, you better finish eating everything on your plate.
1:43.3	Do you know when I was young how my life was?
1:45.6	I was poor.
1:46.5	There was no food.
1:47.8	What we did have, soldiers would come on patrol in our village and take away from us.
1:52.7	Or the freedom, the guerrillas, the partisans would come and take it away.
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