© Louie Palu

Ben Hogan from Planet of the Books was kind to inform me about the interview he just posted with photographer Louie Palu. His recent work, Cage Call, was awarded with the Critical Mass Award Book, and published in a book with 50 images. The purpose of this project was to describe visually the live of miners in northern Canada, capturing day-to-day activities of these workers below and above ground. You can see the images at his website. L. Palu is working on a multimedia of this work that will be posted at his website in the future. It should be quite interesting when it is available; this a perfect project for the use of multimedia.

Sometimes I will wait in a spot for minutes or hours, I go on gut feeling and instinct. In the end I spend as much time shooting as possible. I like to think a lot about what I am doing and then after I have shot, forming concepts and ideas as to the kind of emotion, light and form I feel best combines to find the picture I need to say what I feel. There is no model really, I feel it and I shoot.

As for editing, I spend a lot of time editing. People underestimate the power of good photo editing. I have had many great teachers, the two which made the most impact on me are John G. Morris and Ken Light. For me moments happen and I capture them with the camera if I am lucky. The editing process is to build a body or sequence of images that come together to say one thing or how I feel.- Louie Palu

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography No Comments »