Meet Vava

Vava Buitenkant has been shooting photos since her sixth birthday, when she was given a Kodak Instamatic camera. Although her equipment has since been upgraded to a Nikon SLR – and her technique has been fine-tuned – she maintains the same fresh enthusiasm as when she clicked her first snapshot.

 

After earning a BFA from Carnegie Mellon, where she studied photography with Harold Corsini, she spent a decade on Madison Avenue as an advertising art director. Then she utilized the experience she'd gained promoting businesses (IBM, Chase, Steinway, Tiffany) to establish one of her own. Her photo studio, VavaIMAGES, specializes in promotional portraits that communicate each individual's uniqueness, which is so essential to branding one's services.