Steven Forster is a New Orleans native and has been a professional photographer for more than twenty years. His work is in public and private collections, among them the Historic New Orleans Collection, as well as exhibiting at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Mario Villa Gallery in New Orleans and Chicago. He has had more than eight thousand photographs published worldwide--for, among others, the A&E Network, People Magazine, Court TV, the Associated Press, Fox Sports, Elle Magazine, TV Guide,Washington Monthly, Gambit and Figaro newspapers, New Orleans Magazine, LesBeaux Arts, Women's Wear Daily, and the late, lamented Impact. He was Photo Editor for Roll Call newspaper in Washington, D.C. Forster is the featured photographer in A Practical Guide For The Emerging Artist, edited by Margaret Lazzari. He currently writes and photographs the Big Easy page in the Sunday edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and has won two Alpha awards, one for his "Visible Women," a series of portraits of local female notables in virtually every field of endeavor, and the other for his Big Easy page. And Steven was the last person known to have photographed Ethel Merman.