Career
In March 2015 Forster was named Journalist of the Year at the Holland Press Awards for his body of work on the Netherlands and Dutch culture published in 2014. Forster"s written work has appeared in the Independent on Sunday, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Hindu, The Times Group publications, and Deccan Herald. He has written and photographed for National Geographic, National Geographic Kids, and The Wisden Cricketer.
He publishes food and travel blog posts on his own site and The Huffington Post.
In August 2015 his site was listed among the United Kingdom"s top 50 food blogs. He wrote about snake boat racing in Kerala (Stark World, 2006).
His photography is influenced by his mentor, the late Indian photojournalist North. Thiagarajan, who described himself as "a pictorial photojournalist". In May 2009 one of Forster"s images, photographed during a demonstration in Delhi, India, was selected for inclusion in the United Kingdom National Union of Journalists" Photography Matters exhibition in London of fifty news photographs taken by NUJ members during 2007 and 2008.
His work was exhibited at the 2006 Pingyao International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China.
Forster is also active in the field of intercultural studies (cross-cultural communication) and lectures on photography and travel writing. Forster played national league basketball in England and Wales for University College Swansea (1990-1993) and Leicester Falcons (1993-1994). He was selected to play for the University of Wales in the British Universities Sports Federation championships in 1992.