Trust, willing to get the job done, reliability, integrity

Peter Forest is the owner of Forest Photography, LLC that was founded in January 2013. The LaPlace, Louisiana native is a contract photographer who has been working throughout the south Louisiana Regional area since 2008.

Forest photographs a wide variety of subjects ranging from aerial, construction, corporate, disaster recovery, documentation, events, general assignment, music events, promotional, real estate listing, sports and weddings. He has worked as a freelance photographer for various news outlets such as Essence Communications, Getty Images, Reuters, The Times-Picayune along with other local and national news services.

Prior to working in photography, Forest was the media relations’ director in the athletic departments of Alabama State, Alcorn State and Grambling State Universities. He is a 1991 graduate of Southern University-Baton Rouge who received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies (Broadcasting).

Forest has worked a freelance writer for the Associated Press in which he covered college basketball games in the Dallas-Fort Worth area during the 1997-98 season.

Forest was a member of various national organizations such as the Football Writers Association of America, Louisiana Sportswriters Association, College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the Black College Sports Information Directors Association (BCoSIDA).

Work Terms

Work hours are flexible and catered to the requests of the client