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Exhibit Through Jan. 30, 2010: Worldwide Photography Gala Awards Canadian Larry Louie the 2009 Documentary Humanitarian Grant


Louie's work on world blindness will benefit Seva Canada and Western Nepalese with primary eye care centre.

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EDMONTON, Canada / PR FREE / Dec 03 2009 --
Edmonton-based photographer Larry Louie has become the first Canadian to receive the Documentary Humanitarian Grant by the WPGA for his photographic works about world blindness. The grant in turn will be transfered by Larry Louie to Seva Canada to help establish a much needed primary eye care centre in Western Nepal.

About Larry Louie

Larry Louie is a practicing optometrist and a passionate humanitarian documentary photographer based in Edmonton, Canada. As an optometrist and photographer, Larry is an avid supporter of Seva Canada, a non-profit organization that has joined the VISION 2020 initiative aimed at eliminating avoidable blindness in the world by the year 2020. Increasingly, Larry focuses his lens on remote cultures facing rapid change, assimilation and even disappearance, as urbanization and globalization erode traditional ways of life. He also explores the challenges that arise where people’s lives are caught between the past and present, documenting the social issues of groups that modern society has touched but left behind. His photographs show the strength and perseverance that mark people the world over, revealing the light sometimes found in dark places

Larry's work to document cultures around the world has resulted in a compelling archive of images. His work has received international recognition, with honours including an IPA - Lucie Award, and a National Geographic photo essay award.

A collection of his work will be exhibited at the Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Canada from through Jan. 30, 2010.

Contact Larry Louie by e-mail at larryylouie@shaw.ca or visit LarryLouie.com (http://www.larrylouie.com).

Judges’ Comments:

At a time when the Art Photography world seems desperate to ostracise social-documentary photography in a strange re-casting of the way the Art World of old held photography at a considerable distance, it is good to see a documentary photographer, focusing on social issue win this open-ended prize for the simple reason that the work was strong, the subject significant and the approach intelligent and direct. I felt his heart was in it.

Most of what I said above could apply to Larry Louie. The work he presented was wider-ranging in subject and more knowing in terms of photographic language, but underlying this one senses a genuine commitment to what he is photographing.
Chris Steel-Perkins/Magnum

While Larry Louie's portfolio is a direct reflection of his work as an optometrist, he approaches his subject with an impassioned eye and a compassionate heart. Louie travels to many out-of-the-way locales, and photographs with an empathy toward his subjects that seems to come with the territory of a documentary photographer. While many, however, take pictures and attempt to create a "woe is me" mentality, Louie creates images that enable one to see, to feel what it might be like on the other side of the lens. He photographs hope.
Tim Anderson, Red Dog Journal

About WPGA

Worldwide Photography Gala Award’s (WPGA) mission is to recognize exceptional photographers from around the world. Believing that everyone and every organization has a responsibility to contribute to the benefit of world humanity; WPGA donates a substantial portion of its revenues to established international organizations such as Save the Children, which advance the welfare of underprivileged societies.

For more information, visit TheGalaAwards.com (http://www.thegalawards.com), e-mail press@thegalaawards.com or call (+34) 655 240 987.



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