Sugar Bowl New Year's Eve Parade
Activities associated with the 2019 Sugar Bowl New Year's Eve parade on Decatur Street.
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
Laplace, LA, USA
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Request QuotePeter 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).
Activities associated with the 2019 Sugar Bowl New Year's Eve parade on Decatur Street.
Game and fan photos from the NFC Championship Game
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Jefferson Dollars for Scholars program presented laptop computers to students who have received Jefferson Dollars for Scholars college scholarships at their facility. This scholarship is in conjunction with the Louisiana TOPS program's full 4-year scholarships at the various state schools. About 111 students from Jefferson Parish public schools were awarded laptops along with their scholarships.
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The New Orleans Regional Black Chamber of Commerce held their Annual Luncheon and Meeting at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel Downtown in New Orleans on Friday, May 18, 2018. Guest speakers included New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, Michael Hecht (President and CEO of GNO, Inc.) and Shawn Wilson, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation.
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