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Jeff Vespa (born 1970) is an American photographer, known as a co-founder of WireImage and the Editor-at-Large of LIFE.com.
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 dollars 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 NY 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 named Editor-at-Large of the LIFE.com in March 2009.
Vespa attended the American Film Institute Graduate Program for Producing in 1993. He produced the Lifetime Television movie Rituals in 1998 which starred Isaiah Washington and Regina King. More recently he produced, wrote and directed the 10 minute short film Nosebleed starring David Arquette which could be seen on IFC and Channel 3 in France. The film had its premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in March 2008 and then screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival as a part of the Semaine de la Critique section.