Artist

Blue Sky Gallery, 1231 NW Hoyt, is proud to present a lecture and slide presentation by visiting photographer Louie Palu on Friday, March 3 at 7:30 pm at Blue Sky Gallery. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Palu’s series, “Cage Call: Life in the Hard Rock Mining Belt,” documents the people, land, and work in the renowned mining region of Northern Canada. From quiet landscapes of the surrounding areas, to haunting portraits of the miners, to dramatic, shadowy images inside the shaft, Palu’s images simultaneously tell the humanistic stories of miners, their wives, and communities, as well as those of the industry, history, and tension between labor and enterprise. Identity, community, life, death, all swept together in the folds of light and shadow within Palu’s photographs.