Welcome
MaryAnn Talamo
"Teach your child to notice, and remember, the beauty of their childhood" - MaryAnn
MaryAnn Talamo, M.Photog.M.Artist.Cr. is an award winning, nationally recognized photographer, lifelong artist and a longtime teacher. She not only teaches turning photographs into unique pieces of digital art, but she also teaches tradition hand methods of studio art and multimedia as well.
She has been serving families across New York City with her small businesses since 1998.
Creative Campus NYC
While in college studying art and art history, and running a household, raising two daughters and a Cockerpoo named Cody, MaryAnn decided to start a business using her artistic talents and her very large, very old but unique house! MaryAnn started running her studio Creative Campus in 1998, right after her 30th Birthday!
We converted our first floor into a children's art school, where MaryAnn taught grade school art lessons and Mommy and Me classes on the weekdays, and we hosted dress up parties, puppet shows and face painting birthday parties on the weekends! Creative Campus was highly successful, but ended when MaryAnn converted the same studio into a photo studio in 2003.
And now it's back! Please check out the videos of our new studio on MaryAnn's YouTube Channel, Art, Life and Photography, where she also posts free lessons in photography and art, while she continues to physically teach in her studio.
Custom Digital Images
As a fine art student for over 40 years now, MaryAnn started using her first camera at seventeen, and has been concentrating on the art of photography since the age of nineteen. She became the owner of her own successful portrait studio in 2003, Custom Digital Images, based in Staten Island, New York. She frequently uses her extensive education in the fine arts and art history as a reference in her work, which has helped her cultivate a classical style.
She is well known for her "modern renaissance" style of studio lighting and has travelled across the country teaching other photographers how to give their studio the "fine art edge", and what she learned being a part of the portrait photography and wedding industry both before and after the digital revolution.