WKU Events

Louie Palu, an award-winning filmmaker and photographer, will be giving a presentation about his long-term projects at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (March 27) in the Gary Ransdell Hall auditorium.

Palu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on social political issues such as war, human rights, and poverty.

His work has appeared in festivals, publications, exhibitions, and collections internationally. His project covering politics in Washington from 2019-2021 was selected for a World Press Photo award.  He is a 2016-17 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of numerous awards including 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.

He is currently working on a long-term project on the Arctic partnered with National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Society and is a National Geographic Explorer. In 2019 his work was selected for the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. His work is held in numerous collections including the Smithsonian, U.S. Library of Congress, and National Gallery of Art.