Kurt Coste was a prep state wrestling champion, team captain
and MVP. He holds a B. A. in Journalism with curriculum in Advertising
from Louisiana State University. He got his start professionally in 1980 as a commercial
photographer in the New Orleans area, with a career that has brought many individual awards
for excellence, most notably in 1989, when the Advertising Club of New Orleans awarded Coste 7 Addys.
In addition, he swept the entire photographic arts category. He has served on the Board
of Directors for the American Society of Magazine Photographers as well
as the board of the Advertising Club of New Orleans. He has received several
Alpha awards for photographic excellence in the fashion industry while many
of his clients have featured his work to secure a multitude of awards for themselves.
Another hallmark came in 1985 when he was named The American Advertising
Federation's Photographer of the Year in New Orleans.
His work continues to be published globally via London's stock photo agency
Getty Images Worldwide and three of his photographs appear in Kodak's
book "10,000 Eyes" celebrating 150 years of photography.
While his client list of over 900
companies is too long to list, some of
them include Church's Chicken, The Louisiana Superdome
& Arena, The State of Louisiana & Office of Tourism,
Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, Carl Zeiss North America,
Ritz-Carlton Hotels, The French Market Association,
Shell Oil Company, the Brennans’ restaurants,
Trinity Yachts, Ashley Furniture Industries,
Atlas Van Lines, Hitachi Telecom USA, Taylor Energy
House of Blues, Terminix Pest Control, several hospitals, banks,
hotels, record companies, law firms, surgical products manufacturers
as well as the New Orleans Symphony and Ballet.
As a graduate of the U. S. Naval JROTC program in 1976, he was armed with
an appreciation for the military way of doing things - on purpose, on time, on budget,
with systematic and repeatable methodologies that work. This, along with deep
knowledge of cutting edge digital technologies such as non-linear video editing,
audio recording & engineering, rich cinematic lighting, and the latest computer technologies,
provided the right stuff for the development of Top Guns Inc., a multi-media corporation that
could produce his clients' expanding needs as they related to television, DVD and the web.
The company was quickly awarded contracts for the production of television advertising
campaigns for Mobile's convention & tourism industry, Louisiana's Office of Tourism,
and the award winning national Terminix television spots.
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