Career
He was also the original designer of WireImage"s grid layout design. This design has now been adopted as the photo industry standard. 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 Maine.
Vespa was the editor-at-large of the LIFE.com from March 2009 to February 2012.
On October 2, 2012, Vespa launched Verge, a web magazine dedicated to discovering new talent. Vespa"s first coffee table book, The Art of Discovery, (Rizzoli) was released in October
2014. lieutenant is a book of 100 portraits of celebrities along with quotes about an important moment of discovery in their lives.
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 International Finance Corporation 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.
Wünderarts Amherst, Master of Arts, 2008 - American Dream, Two Person Show
Flinn Gallery Greenwich, Connecticut, 2008 - Food..Glorious Food, Group Show
Gallery at LoFi, Los Angeles, 2006 - Eat Maine! Yummy New Photographs
LAXART, Los Angeles, 2006 - One Shot: 100x100, Group Show
Rush Arts Gallery, New York, 2006 - God Complex: Images Of Power, Group Show
Traction 811, Los Angeles, 2004 - Hollywood Graffiti.
