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MaryAnn Talamo
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 and multimedia as well.
She has been serving families across New York City with her small businesses since 1998.
Custom Digital Images
As a fine art student for over 40 years, MaryAnn 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 what she's learned being a part of the portrait photography industry both before and after the digital revolution.
Creative Campus NYC
While still in school and super busy with a husband, two daughters and a dog named Cody, MaryAnn decided to take her artistic talent and put it into a business. In 1998, when she was 30 years old, Creative Campus was born! After converting the first-floor apartment of their two-family home into a children's art studio and party place (check out that logo), MaryAnn taught traditional art for grade schoolers and Mommy & Me classes for preschoolers on the weekdays, while offering creative birthday parties on the weekends.
Creative Campus was highly successful until 2003, when MaryAnn decided to make a career pivot with the advent of digital photography. Now, 25 years later, after 20 years as a portrait photographer, always a teacher, she's bringing Creative Campus back with her as she returns to work! While she might not be bringing back everything Creative Campus used to offer, like our elaborate parties and puppet shows, we know our art studio will be a big part of the lives of many young people!
Please check our schedule for group art classes and other offerings throughout the year.