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Meet Vanessa
Photography education that gives your art an edge
Vanessa has been photographing weddings, events, portraits and lifestyle for over 20 years.
She's a Canon Explorer of Light, an honor given to only 5 photographers in the United States, and her work has been published by Yahoo! News, Grace Ormonde, Style Me Pretty, Rangefinder and more.
With her practical and open-book style of teaching, she shares everything she knows with hundreds of thousands of photographers as an educator and influential sparker.
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