Jeff Vespa

Jeff Vespa (born 1970) is an American photographer, known as a co-founder of WireImage and the editor-at-large of LIFE.com.

Photography career

Vespa is most widely known for being one of nine co-founders of the photo agency website WireImage.com and its parent company MediaVast. He was also the original designer of WireImage's grid layout design. This design has now been adopted as the photo industry standard. In February 2007, MediaVast announced that it would sell to Getty Images for $207 million in an all-cash deal.

Starting in 2003, Vespa has been the official photographer of the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival since 2006. In 2004, he joined forces with Paris Hilton to create a New York Times bestselling book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, which was followed the next year with Your Heiress Diary: Confess it All to Me.

Vespa was the editor-at-large of the LIFE.com from March 2009 to February 2012.

On October 2, 2012, Vespa launched Verge (www.verge.is), a web magazine dedicated to discovering new talent.