About Pete Cohen | Los Angeles Photographer

The story

I’m Pete, a Los Angeles photographer working across weddings, brands, and portraits. For the last decade, my job has been the same in every setting: notice the real moment, and be ready for it.

I came to photography sideways, through years as a touring musician and more than a decade as a creative lead and designer in branding and advertising. Both still shape how I shoot: one taught me timing and feel, the other, art direction and story. But the day I photographed my first wedding in 2015, everything else became background.

Since then it’s been hundreds of weddings, sessions, and shoots across two coasts, and I still get the same jolt every time a moment comes together in the frame.

The approach

Documentary, with an editorial eye. I capture moments as they happen, but I’m always composing for light, feeling, and story.

A creative collaboration. You know your story; I bring the direction. Together we make something that feels like you.

Every detail considered. From color to how you feel on the day, the small things add up to images you’ll keep for life.

The difference

I think like an art director,
not just a photographer

Most photographers learn to make a beautiful image. I spent more than a decade as a creative lead and designer in branding and advertising, directing campaigns, building brand identities, and deciding which images would actually move a business forward.

So I don’t just show up and shoot. I think about the story, who it’s for, and where it will live. It’s the same eye I bring to brands like Media.Monks and to a couple’s wedding day, the difference between pictures that look nice and images that do a job.

The Journal

A decade behind the camera, written down: planning guides, honest advice, and the stories behind the shoots.

Read the journal →

What clients say

Trusted by couples, brands & creatives

“Pete will make sure your photos are the kind you want to look at time and time again, because they truly are a work of art.”

S & M

Married in Connecticut

“We are filled with fond memories of how special our day was, and how easy and fun it was to shoot them with Pete.”

T & M

Celebrated in California

Every good story
deserves a photographer

I think like an art director,
not just a photographer

A decade behind the camera, written down: planning guides, honest advice, and the stories behind the shoots.

Trusted by couples, brands & creatives

Let’s create something
worth keeping

I think like an art director,not just a photographer

A decade behind the camera, written down: planning guides, honest advice, and the stories behind the shoots.

Trusted by couples, brands & creatives

Let’s create somethingworth keeping

I think like an art director,
not just a photographer

Let’s create something
worth keeping