Louie Palu
(Canada)
Miners drilling in a drift with jack-leg drills, 1450 foot level, Kerr Mine, Virginiatown, Ontario, Canada, 2003
Silver Gelatin Print, Printed by Artist

$850

Signed on reverse

This print was given to FotoFest by the artist in 1991.

Louie Palu graduated from the Ontario College of Art, Toronto in 1991 and subsequently moved to New York City, on a scholarship, where he interned with documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark. Later, he returned to Toronto and began working as a photojournalist for newspapers and magazines, including six years at Canada’s major newspaper, The Globe and Mail. In 1991, he began twelve years of field-work documenting the working lives of miners in collaboration with the writer Charlie Angus. This resulted in the critically acclaimed body of work, Cage Call: Life and Death in the Hard Rock Mining Belt, which was a finalist in the Leica European Book Publisher's Award and won a Critical Mass Book Publishing Award. The work is to be released as a monograph in October of 2007. Mr. Palu’s work has appeared in numerous books, catalogues, festivals, and exhibitions internationally. His work has been selected for the prestigious photojournalism festival Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France, and has received three nominations for the Visa d’Or Prize in the Daily Press category. The print was acquired by FotoFest from the artist in 2006.