Elizabeth Peak: Your Belly Is Beautiful

German-American photographer Elizabeth Peak began her photographic studies in 1991 when she took her first lesson from Felicia Leggio Braud. She graduated from Louisiana State University in 1986, and later studied photography with Dr. Terry Kennedy at Southern University. She takes her camera everywhere — from backyard adventures to international destinations. More recently, she became inspired by the #MeToo movement, the 2016 protests of Alton Sterling's murder, Equal Rights Amendment rallies, as well as the attacks on women's sexual and reproductive freedoms. Politically ignited, her current project is My Core: Our Bellies, Our Power, Our Choice!, photographs of individual women that reveal strength, self-determination, and sexual and reproductive freedom and justice. Elizabeth Peak lives in Baton Rouge.