Discover Top News Shooters / Video Journalists in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

Peter G. Forest is the owner of Forest Photography, LLC that was founded in January 2013. The LaPlace, Louisiana native has very recently joined the Storyhunter team and 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, disaster aftermath, documentation, music events, sports and news media coverage. He has previously worked as a freelance photographer for The Times-Picayune newspaper since 2010. 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. He was a former member of various national organizations such as the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Football Writers Association of America, Louisiana Sportswriters Association, College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the Black College Sports Information Directors Association (BCoSIDA).

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Jihan Hafiz is an Egyptian, Samoan born in California and raised between Cairo and Washington, D.C. Her life’s work as a filmmaker and journalist span world events from the Egyptian Revolution, wars in Libya and Palestine, borders and immigration, to Indigenous and Black uprisings across the United States and Latin America, elections and womens rights. She’s won multiple awards for her work in visual storytelling, including an Emmy (2013), the NABJ award (2015), two Bronze Telly Awards, Indigenous Music Awards Best Music video and nominated for the Rory Peck and Livingston Awards. Her films have screened at film festivals across the world and aired on international and national networks. Over the past decade, Jihan has worked as a television reporter, international news anchor, film and news producer, director, cinematographer, on-air talent, field reporter, investigator, and content creator. She works as both a one-woman-band and with major crews of up to 50 crew members, in some cases assisting production crews with moving film equipment and members across international borders. Jihan is a proud member and founder of GenderWars – an internationals women’s collective dedicated to participating in self-defense against deadly sexual assault. Once upon a time based in Cairo, Brussels, Madrid, Havana and Salvador da Bahia, Jihan is a journalism mentor, former dance professor, and trilingual in Arabic, English and Portuguese. She is currently based out of New Orleans in the bayou state of Louisiana.

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Matthew Hinton is a New Orleans area freelance photographer whose work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Awards in 2014 and 2016 and by numerous awards from the Press Club of New Orleans including the Hal Ledet President's Print Photography Award, the highest honor the Press Club can bestow upon a photographer. Matthew Hinton has previously been a staff photographer at both of the daily newspapers in New Orleans. His work has appeared nationally and internationally through freelance work with the Associated Press and AFP, Agence France-Presse.

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I am a Pulitzer Prize-winner and three-time NPPA regional photographer of the year who has worked as a photojournalist in New Orleans for over two decades, shooting breaking, general, entertainment, and lifestyle news as well as covering all sports, from kids' soccer to multiple Super Bowls. I am also a licensed, insured and experienced drone pilot who owns and operates several photography / videography aircraft.

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I'm a filmmaker producing works through the production studio, Seidist, based in New Orleans. I've filmed across America and abroad, worked with major brands, artists, actors, celebrities and musicians, and have covered stories for media outlets like Now This, GQ/ Condé Nast , Bloomberg, Politico, NPR, CBS, WarnerMedia, SLAM Magazine, Newsy, MSNBC, AJ+, Weather and many more. I specialize in bringing stories to life by creating content with depth, spirit, and purpose.

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I am an award winning documentary filmmaker based in the American South who has produced, directed, shot, and edited documentaries for msnbc, Participant Media, Vice, PBS, and CNBC. I am passionate about telling character driven documentaries that help put larger issues into perspective. I primarily work as a crew of one allowing me to build a deep sense of trust between myself and the subject.

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Lily is a filmmaker and educator based in New Orleans. Her directorial debut, Bayou Maharajah, premiered at SXSW in 2013 and has since won many awards including the Oxford American Award for Best Southern Film and Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Documentary Of The Year. She has produced for Arcade Fire, Beyoncé, and Preservation Hall. Her films have covered the Department of Homeland Security's policy of family detention, prison conditions in Gaza and the deteriorating environment of the Gulf Coast. Lily is a co-founder of New Orleans Video Voices, a women-led collective dedicated to increasing media literacy across the Gulf South. In 2015, she was commissioned by Time Inc. and Field Office Films (producer of Beasts Of The Southern Wild) to contribute to their coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s 10-year anniversary. The resulting film, Everything Is To Be Continued, exposes how Black working musicians have been excluded from New Orleans’ economic recovery. Lily’s second feature documentary Buckjumping premiered in October 2018 to the largest audience ever assembled at the New Orleans Film Festival. Her work has appeared on ARTE, HBO, MTV News, Time, Al-Jazeera English, Democracy Now!, Sundance DocClub, Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, Electronic Intifada and PBS. Lily is a member of the Grammys, Film Fatales New Orleans, a former board member of WIFT-Louisiana and of the Patois Human Rights Film Festival. She is on the Community Advisory Board of WWOZ and is a member of Alternate ROOTS. Lily a founding member of the All-Yall Film Collective of Southern filmmakers.

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Matthew Spriggs spent years working in the film industry for both large and small-scale productions at various levels and departments since the age of eighteen. His professional expertise is in cinematography/videography. Matthew mainly works on local and national documentaries, news programs, commercials, reality television, events, and short narratives. Some of his collaborations have included CNBC, 60 Second Docs, Hearst Media, and Now This News. He is familiar with various camera setups, such as the Arri Alexa Mini, Red Komodo, Canon C-Series, Sony FX Cinema Line, and Blackmagic Design. Matthew's prior job skills extend to office management, as well as extras casting for major television and film productions. 

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While living in Chicago during the early 2000's Declan started field-producing episodic documentaries for WTTW, the Travel Channel, and FOX, then shot two successful auto racing docs, FOUR BANGERS and TRAILER RACER. in 2003 he completed ULBERT, an award-winning documentary on bipolar disorder. In 2012 Declan produced and shot New Orleans Documentary SHELL SHOCKED, where he now lives. He has since been producer for Jack Newell's OPEN TABLES and 42 GRAMS. In 2022 he produced 2 feature thrillers OFF RAMP and ZERO HOUR. 2023 Starts with a feature thriller called JUNKYARD. Between films Declan produces, shoots and directs smaller projects for commercial, news, music videos and social media.

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I am a New Orleans based Director/Cameraman (and DP) with over 25 years experience working with corporate clients, non-profits, public agencies, news networks and other organizations both large and small. These projects have received numerous awards including Hugo, Telly, Summit and Addy recognition. I'm very comfortable working with flat-rate, fixed price budgets and have a reputation for meeting deadlines within budget and exceeding expectations. I am an owner/operator of a Sony FS7 4K package, with a wide selection of lenses and top-end sound gear. Also available: Odyssey7Q+ for ProRes/RAW and High Frame Rate recording; Sony A7s package; Canon 5Dlll pkg.; motion-control time lapse pkg. Additional work and contact information can be found vimeo.com/filmshooter

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Leslie T. Snadowsky is an award-winning multimedia news reporter who’s contributed to The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, The Dallas Morning News, The New York Post, Reuters and The Times-Picayune, and has appeared on CNN’s “Nancy Grace” and “Jane Velez Mitchell,” Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” and WWL-TV’s Eyewitness News. She earned her BA from Newcomb College at Tulane University and her MS in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Once a jazz DJ for WWOZ 90.7 FM and as an exhibited and published rock photographer, Leslie enjoys live music and the eclectic culture of New Orleans.

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Born in Venezuela, raised in New Orleans. Ricardo’s is a self taught indie film and commercial producer as well as a director and editor. His passion for narrative and non narrative filmmaking stems from the mix of both of those cultures. Ricardo’s experience comes from creating music videos for artist like, Ambre, Durand Jones, Arcade Fire, and record labels such as RocNation, Sony, PayDay, & UltraMusic Group. As well as commercials for CAN AM, STANLEY BRAND, ATHLETES FOOT, WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT , STARZ. He wants to create more commercial and narrative projects.

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I am a one-man band (camera operator, producer and editor) with over 15 years of experience creating content for corporations, television, and film. I am comfortable producing and covering a story on my own, but also happy to work on a team as a camera operator. Currently, I primarily work on docu-series as a camera operator. To view samples of my work, please visit my website. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions. Thank you for stopping by!

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I'm Jonathan and I am a video journalist. I shoot, produce, edit, analyze, consume, and collaborate on all things video. I believe strongly in the power of story to generate empathy and create change. I am currently based out of Chicago where I am trying to eat as many pupusas and hot dogs as humanly possible.

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A filmmaker, photographer and artist Crista Rock has dedicated her life to storytelling. Coming from a journalism background she has shot stories with all of the major networks and is one of the most passionate filmmakers in the country.

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New Orleans-based cinematographer, producer and editor with years of experience in unscripted storytelling: documentary, lifestyle, home-renovation, true-crime, food, music and development. Part 107 licensed commercial UAV pilot. Many kit rentals available.

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I'm a professional photojournalist living and working in South Louisiana. From 2006-2015, I worked full-time as a photographer and videographer for The Daily Advertiser, and since 2015 have worked full-time in a similar capacity for The Advocate.

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Born and raised in New Orleans, former - USN Combat Photographer - Started up both Atlanta & Seattle Bureau's for FOX NEWS CHANNEL - Current freelance clients include SAP, CONCUR, THE WEATHER CHANNEL, VICE, NBC, UNIVERSAL & REELZ - Specialize in Aerial and land based Gyro cameras

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I am an Award-winning journalist with 18 years of experience in writing and producing for national news outlets. I have extensive editorial experience, including in-depth interviews and high-level story development. I am a skilled writer and communicator for web content, print, radio and television. In addition to my editorial background, I am an experienced logistics and planning manager. My technical skills include shooting and editing video as well as recording and editing audio. Currently working as a public radio editor and producer; during my TV career I produced news stories and segments for CNN, Current TV, The Washington Post, and Al Jazeera America. I've covered breaking news for all of the above news outlets plus ABC and ITV in Great Britain. I've produced streaming web content via Facebook Live for FOX Broadcasting, The New York Times and AJ+.

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Claire has worked as a full time freelance photographer and short filmmaker since mid 2012. Her work - spanning commercial and editorial projects - is centered around telling human stories authentically. In February 2014, she started the popular New Orleans street portrait project NOLAbeings. She interviewed well over 1,000 people in New Orleans alone, attracting a following of over 50k people on social media. Since then, her work has been featured by a wide range of media, including National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME, Wired, Glamour, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon's DP Review, Le Parisien Magazine, Thrillist, New Orleans Magazine, TEDx, NPR, Vox and PBS News Hour.

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