Photographer Marshall La Plante began documenting the world around him in 1975, when he was first to discover and photograph a downed helicopter. Though in eighth grade at the time, Marshall submitted his resulting images to a local newspaper, which soon picked him up as a freelance photographer.

Marshall’s early assignments included news, sports and feature photography. After briefly leaving the field, Marshall returned with a vengeance, his work almost immediately appearing in numerous high-profile and local publications. He soon became a sought-after commodity in the Los Angeles photographic community, doing editorial spreads for a wide variety of publications. Later, his interest in aerial photography and sports combined to make him one of the earliest photo-documentarians of aerial extreme sports.

Marshall’s work has been published in numerous national magazines and newspapers. He has also been engaged by a number of exclusive entities, such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, various movie studios, and country clubs in and around Los Angeles. A list of some of Marshall’s clients can be accessed under the Clients link on this site.

Marshall currently specializes in editorial work, with a focus on aerial action adventure, aircraft-to-aircraft, aerial scenic and extreme sports photography. He also has a passion for photographing Los Angeles cityscapes. An exhibit of Marshall’s landmark 1980s documentary images of L.A. policemen working Skid Row is currently touring galleries in Southern California.