Marianne is a born and bred New Orleans native, enjoying photography as a second career. With her husband Steve (whom you will meet at a NOLA workshop no doubt because he is our (un)official mascot), she runs an amazingly successful corporate, wedding, and portrait business, The Red M Studio. Marianne and Steve have been delighting their clients with their clean, bold, authentic photographic style since 2011.

While studying and researching to develop her documentary style, Marianne attended our Project New Orleans program and fell in love with the #MomentaFamily and nonprofit photography. 

As part of their studio’s outreach, The Red M annually donates a percentage of their family-sessions to eliminating food instability and hunger in Louisiana. To date, the program has raised more than $36,000 for local schools and nonprofits in the Greater New Orleans area. Steve and Marianne also work on an annual food drive fundraiser that feeds over 1,500 people each year. As they like to say, “we feed people with our cameras”.

Marianne is a passionate storyteller with a keen eye for capturing moments that matter and that passion for moments has made her one of our favorite workshop coaches. She is a whipsmart expert at business development (yup, she has an MBA!) and used that knowledge to grow The Red M Studio into a premiere wedding and lifestyle exclusive studio in the Big Easy. The studio has earned accolades such as WeddingWire Couple’s Choice award winners every year since 2017.

Visit Marianne’s work at https://www.theredmstudio.com or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/theredmstudio.